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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Thomas Carlyle

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
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Chance Forever Life Oneself
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
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
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Fear Man One Liner Responsibility
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
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
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Deep Himself Man Poet Sincere Vision
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

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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