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

Thomas Carlyle

Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
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
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
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
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
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 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
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 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
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
A man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
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
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy

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