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

Thomas Carlyle

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
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
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
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
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
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
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
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
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Bad Change Fortune Goodness Ourselves Time
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
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

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

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