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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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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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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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