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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Thomas Carlyle

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
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
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
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
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
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
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Fall Notice Silence Tree
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Democracy Government Hero Satisfaction Yourself
Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Impossible Noble One Liner Work
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See

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