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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.

Thomas Carlyle

Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Better Education Mistake Teaching Understand Yourself
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
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
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
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
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
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Desire Development Man Power Stop
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Beginning Heart Knowledge Love One Liner
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Money Pay Price Way
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness

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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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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