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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

Thomas Carlyle

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Attraction Deep Fear Past
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
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live 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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Age Old Ourselves Sorrow Work
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
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
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Deep Freedom Man World
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
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
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
A man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Beautiful Element Goodness Mystery Secret Virtue
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
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
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
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!
THOMAS CARLYLE

Believe Force God Grace Himself Judgement Kind Soul

Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

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