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Endurance is patience concentrated.

Thomas Carlyle

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
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
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
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
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
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
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
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Deep Enough Heart Music Nature Search
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Animal Bird Demand Learning Politics Supply Word Yourself
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
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
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Calm God Hands Issues Leaving
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
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
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing

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