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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Thomas Carlyle

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Lie Path Way Work Yourself
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
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
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
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Act Fear Himself Man
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
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
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Labor Wasted Time Work Writing
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
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
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
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Himself Kind Man Problem Universe Work
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

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