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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

Thomas Carlyle

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Better Man Talk Wasted 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
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
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
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Deep Enough Heart Music Nature Search
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
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 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
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.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Honesty Man World 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
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

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