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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

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
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
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
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
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Act Fear Himself Man
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
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Deep Freedom Man World
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
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
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
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

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