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

Thomas Carlyle

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
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
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
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
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
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
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
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Better Education Mistake Teaching Understand Yourself
A man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
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
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Greatness Oneself Trouble
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Big Ideas Mindset Original Place State

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

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