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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Thomas Carlyle

The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
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
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
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
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Animal Bird Demand Learning Politics Supply Word 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
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Determination Material Possession True Worth Yourself
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
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
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

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