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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

Thomas Carlyle

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
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
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
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Himself Learning Man Work World
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
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
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
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
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

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