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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Thomas Carlyle

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
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
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
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
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Determination Material Possession True Worth Yourself
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Act Kind Possible Recognition
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Bad Change Fortune Goodness Ourselves Time
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Fear Man One Liner Responsibility
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
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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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Deep Himself Man Poet Sincere Vision
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner

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