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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.



Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.



Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.



Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.



A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.



The ghostly consciousness of wrong.



The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong



The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder -- waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.



The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.



Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.



Literature is the thought of thinking Souls.



Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.



Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time



Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.



Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.








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