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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

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
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

Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Better Education Mistake Teaching Understand Yourself
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
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
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Determination Material Possession True Worth Yourself
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
No pressure, no diamonds.
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Diamond Jewel One Liner Pressure
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
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Business Distance Doubt Hands Lying See
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man

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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