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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.

Thomas Carlyle

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
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Animal Bird Demand Learning Politics Supply Word Yourself
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
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
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
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
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
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Believe Errors Himself Man Mistake Truth Unity Way
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
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
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
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man

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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