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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.

Thomas Carlyle

Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
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
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Fall Notice Silence Tree
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
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
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Believe Himself Man Original Sincere
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Democracy Government Hero Satisfaction Yourself
Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Impossible Noble One Liner Work
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
No pressure, no diamonds.
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Diamond Jewel One Liner Pressure
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Calm God Hands Issues Leaving
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work

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