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

Thomas Carlyle

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Appearance Love Soul Unity
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Flow Heart Joy Kindness Laughter True
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
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
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
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
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Greatness Oneself Trouble
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Belief Deep Hard Time Health Hope Motivational
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness

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