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

Thomas Carlyle

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
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
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
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
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
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
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence
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
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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Food Fun God Himself People
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
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Honesty Man World Yourself
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Fall Notice Silence Tree
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Age Old Ourselves Sorrow Work

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