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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Thomas Carlyle

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
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
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
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
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Concentration Deep Endurance Focus One Liner Patience
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 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
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
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
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Labor Wasted Time Work Writing
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

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

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