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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Thomas Carlyle

Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person 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
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Money Pay Price Way
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
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Affection Crime Forever Love Misery Mom Myself Yourself
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Flow Heart Joy Kindness Laughter True
No pressure, no diamonds.
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Diamond Jewel One Liner Pressure
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Believe Himself Man Original Sincere

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