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

Thomas Carlyle

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Business Distance Doubt Hands Lying See
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Money Pay Price Way
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
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
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
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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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk
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
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Belief Deep Hard Time Health Hope Motivational

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