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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!

Thomas Carlyle

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Beautiful Element Goodness Mystery Secret Virtue
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
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 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
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
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
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
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
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live 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
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

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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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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