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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

Thomas Carlyle

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
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
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
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
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
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacle Path Perspective Strong Weakness
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
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
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Honesty Man World Yourself
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time

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