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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Thomas Carlyle

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Beginning Heart Knowledge Love One Liner
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
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
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
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
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
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Determination Material Possession True Worth Yourself
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
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
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
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
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source

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