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

Thomas Carlyle

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
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
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
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
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
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
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
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.
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Noble Originality Sincere
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object 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
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
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself

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