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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

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
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
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Chance Forever Life Oneself
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
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
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk
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
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
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
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work

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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