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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

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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Inspirational Motivational Obstacle Path Perspective Strong Weakness
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
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
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work 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
A man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man 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
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
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
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
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

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