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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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