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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Thomas Carlyle

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
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
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
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
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
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Fear Man One Liner Responsibility
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk

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