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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

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
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
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Deep Himself Man Poet Sincere Vision
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
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
A man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
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 block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacle Path Perspective Strong Weakness

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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