Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

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No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Thomas Carlyle in Heroes and Hero Worship (1840)
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

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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 person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.

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