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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.

Thomas Carlyle

Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Animal Bird Demand Learning Politics Supply Word Yourself
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
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
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 person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Desire Development Man Power Stop
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Greatness Oneself Trouble
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Act Kind Possible Recognition
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
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
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Himself Learning Man Work World
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Appearance Love Soul Unity
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 man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
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
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
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
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness

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