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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

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
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Determination Material Possession True Worth Yourself
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Act Fear Himself Man
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacle Path Perspective Strong Weakness
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
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Food Fun God Himself People
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
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
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Common Himself Love Togetherness
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Big Ideas Mindset Original Place State
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True

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