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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

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Labor Wasted Time Work Writing
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Believe Errors Himself Man Mistake Truth Unity Way
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
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
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Concentration Deep Endurance Focus One Liner Patience
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
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
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Better Education Mistake Teaching Understand 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
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Bad Change Fortune Goodness Ourselves Time
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
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Business Distance Doubt Hands Lying See
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
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
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
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
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See

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