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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Thomas Carlyle

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Lie Path Way Work Yourself
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
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
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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Food Fun God Himself People
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
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Concentration Deep Endurance Focus One Liner Patience
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
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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Fall Notice Silence Tree
No pressure, no diamonds.
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Diamond Jewel One Liner Pressure
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Honesty Man World Yourself
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Greatness Oneself Trouble
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Inspirational Motivational Obstacle Path Perspective Strong Weakness

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

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