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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.

Thomas Carlyle

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Moments Stop Yourself
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
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
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
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
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Beginning Heart Knowledge Love One Liner
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
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
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Believe Errors Himself Man Mistake Truth Unity Way
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Belief Deep Hard Time Health Hope Motivational
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
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
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
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

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