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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
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
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Deep Enough Heart Music Nature Search
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Act Kind Possible Recognition
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Calm God Hands Issues Leaving
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
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
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
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
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Celebration Conscience Defeat Sin Song Success Victory
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Belief Deep Hard Time Health Hope Motivational
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Common Himself Love Togetherness
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Deep Freedom Man World

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