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

Thomas Carlyle

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
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
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
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Democracy Government Hero Satisfaction Yourself
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
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
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Beginning Heart Knowledge Love One Liner
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
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Labor Wasted Time Work Writing
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom

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

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