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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Thomas Carlyle

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Believe Himself Man Original Sincere
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Flow Heart Joy Kindness Laughter True
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
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Beautiful Element Goodness Mystery Secret Virtue
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
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
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
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
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Himself Kind Man Problem Universe Work
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

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