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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

Thomas Carlyle

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
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
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 man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
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 world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Himself Learning Man Work World
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
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing

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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