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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Thomas Carlyle

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Fear Man One Liner Responsibility
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Belief Deep Hard Time Health Hope Motivational
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Democracy Government Hero Satisfaction Yourself
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Celebration Conscience Defeat Sin Song Success Victory
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
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
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
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
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
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
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
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
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
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
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Fall Notice Silence Tree

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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