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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Thomas Carlyle

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
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
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 life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Chance Forever Life Oneself
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
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 eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Determination Material Possession True Worth Yourself
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
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
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Affection Crime Forever Love Misery Mom Myself Yourself

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

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