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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Thomas Carlyle

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
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
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
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
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
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
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
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 lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
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
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Animal Bird Demand Learning Politics Supply Word Yourself
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
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
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

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