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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

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
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
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
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
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
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
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
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
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
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
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
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
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work

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