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

Thomas Carlyle

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
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Big Ideas Mindset Original Place State
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
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
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
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
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Deep Freedom Man World
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Calm God Hands Issues Leaving
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

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