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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.

Thomas Carlyle

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Big Ideas Mindset Original Place State
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Labor Wasted Time Work Writing
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
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
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
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Age Old Ourselves Sorrow Work
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
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
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence

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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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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