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Endurance is patience concentrated.

Thomas Carlyle

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
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
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Labor Wasted Time Work Writing
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Common Himself Love Togetherness
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
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
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
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
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
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
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

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