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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

Thomas Carlyle

Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Impossible Noble One Liner Work
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
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
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
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence
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
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
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
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Money Pay Price Way
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative 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
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

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