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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Thomas Carlyle

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Common Himself Love Togetherness
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
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
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
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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Fall Notice Silence Tree
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Greatness Oneself Trouble
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
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
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
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
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
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere

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