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Quote by Thomas Carlyle
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe. – Thomas Carlyle

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Your work is to discover your world and then with all your heart give yourself to it. – Buddha

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The contemplative life is often miserable. One must act more, think less, and not watch oneself live. – Nicolas Chamfort

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I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. – Henry David Thoreau, 1854

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You might say that we use ourselves to discover ourselves. – Judith Hanson Lasater

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