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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
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
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
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
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Deep Enough Heart Music Nature Search
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Celebration Conscience Defeat Sin Song Success Victory
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
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
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 great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
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
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Desire Development Man Power Stop

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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