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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.

Thomas Carlyle

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
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Money Pay Price Way
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
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Deep Enough Heart Music Nature Search
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
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
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
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
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom

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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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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