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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

Thomas Carlyle

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
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
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
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Honesty Man World Yourself
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
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
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 world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Himself Learning Man Work World
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
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
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
A man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
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
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Beautiful Element Goodness Mystery Secret Virtue
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
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
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
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Age Old Ourselves Sorrow Work
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
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
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Common Himself Love Togetherness
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
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
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom

The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

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