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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

Thomas Carlyle

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative 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
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
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Food Fun God Himself People
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Bad Change Fortune Goodness Ourselves Time
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
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
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
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Appearance Love Soul Unity
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
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Labor Wasted Time Work Writing
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
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

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