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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.

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
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Act Kind Possible Recognition
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Himself Kind Man Problem Universe Work
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Deep Freedom Man World
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
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
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
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Beautiful Element Goodness Mystery Secret Virtue
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
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

Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.

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