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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

Thomas Carlyle

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
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
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 merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
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
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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
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
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Act Kind Possible Recognition
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
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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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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