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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Desire Development Man Power Stop
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
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Believe Himself Man Original Sincere
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Believe Force God Grace Himself Judgement Kind Soul
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
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
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Animal Bird Demand Learning Politics Supply Word Yourself
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Chance Forever Life Oneself
Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Concentration Deep Endurance Focus One Liner Patience
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

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

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