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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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