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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Thomas Carlyle

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
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
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
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
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
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person 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
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
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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