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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Thomas Carlyle

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
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
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
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
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
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Bad Change Fortune Goodness Ourselves Time
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
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
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
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
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
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
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy

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