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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

Thomas Carlyle

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
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
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
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Affection Crime Forever Love Misery Mom Myself Yourself
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible 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
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
A man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Act Kind Possible Recognition
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Himself Kind Man Problem Universe Work
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.
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Himself Learning Man Work World
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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