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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

Thomas Carlyle

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
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
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
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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Believe Force God Grace Himself Judgement Kind Soul
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Concentration Deep Endurance Focus One Liner Patience
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
No pressure, no diamonds.
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Diamond Jewel One Liner Pressure
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
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

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

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