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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Money Pay Price Way
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
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
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
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
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
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
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
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Democracy Government Hero Satisfaction 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
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner

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