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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Thomas Carlyle

I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
No pressure, no diamonds.
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Diamond Jewel One Liner Pressure
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
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
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Belief Deep Hard Time Health Hope Motivational
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
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Labor Wasted Time Work Writing
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
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 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
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 life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Chance Forever Life Oneself

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