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A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

Joseph Conrad

You can’t, in sound morals, condemn a man for taking care of his own integrity. It is his clear duty.
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Clear Integrity Man Moral Responsibility Sound
The mind of man is capable of anything.
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Capability Man Mindset
Any fool can carry on, but a wise man knows how to shorten sail in time.
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Carry Fools Man Time Wisdom
We live as we dream – alone.
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Alone Dreams Live One Liner
Everybody had to be thoroughly understood before being accepted.
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Acceptance Discover Patience Right Understand
There is nothing more enticing, disenchanting, and enslaving than the life at sea.
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Charm Life Sea
A word carries far, very far, deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
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Carry Deal Destruction Fly Space Word
A writing may be lost; a lie may be written; but what the eye has seen is truth and remains in the mind!
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Eyes Lost Lying See Truth Wind Writing
We can never cease to be ourselves.
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Be Yourself One Liner Ourselves
I don’t like work but I like what is in work – the chance to find yourself. Your own reality – for yourself, not for others – which no other man can ever know.
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Chance Discover Reality Work Yourself
Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don’t be afraid to follow it.
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Afraid Bliss Yourself
To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence.
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Aspiration Clear Existence Human Path Temper
The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
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Confession Courage Endurance Faith Generation Power Quality Sea Touch Truth
They were conquerors, and for that you want only brute force–nothing to boast of, when you have it, since your strength is just an accident arising from the weakness of others.
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Brutal Force Strength Weakness Yourself
The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.
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Creation Cruelty Ethics Mad Universe View
The human heart is vast enough to contain all the world.
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Enough Heart Human World

A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

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