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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Thomas Carlyle

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Greatness Oneself Trouble
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
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
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
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
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
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
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
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
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Common Himself Love Togetherness
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

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

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