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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Thomas Carlyle

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
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
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
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
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Deep Freedom Man World
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
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
It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Deep Himself Man Poet Sincere Vision
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
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
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 laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

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