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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
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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Calm God Hands Issues Leaving
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Beautiful Element Goodness Mystery Secret Virtue
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
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
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
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Deep Himself Man Poet Sincere Vision
Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Impossible Noble One Liner Work

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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