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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Thomas Carlyle

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
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Celebration Conscience Defeat Sin Song Success Victory
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Believe Himself Man Original Sincere
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
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
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
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
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
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Deep Freedom Man World
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Beginning Heart Knowledge Love One Liner
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
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

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