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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Thomas Carlyle

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Impossible Noble One Liner Work
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Affection Crime Forever Love Misery Mom Myself Yourself
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Better Education Mistake Teaching Understand Yourself
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Bad Change Fortune Goodness Ourselves Time
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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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
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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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Believe Errors Himself Man Mistake Truth Unity Way
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Act Fear Himself Man

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

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