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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.

Thomas Carlyle

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
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
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
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
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Himself Learning Man Work World
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
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
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments

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