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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

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
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
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
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
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
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Deep Enough Heart Music Nature Search
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Age Old Ourselves Sorrow Work
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Appearance Love Soul Unity
No pressure, no diamonds.
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Diamond Jewel One Liner Pressure
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Business Distance Doubt Hands Lying See
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Deep Freedom Man World
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

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