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 CARLYLEThere are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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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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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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