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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.

Thomas Carlyle

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Beautiful Element Goodness Mystery Secret Virtue
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Business Distance Doubt Hands Lying See
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
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
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
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
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
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
No pressure, no diamonds.
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Diamond Jewel One Liner Pressure
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
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong

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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