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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Thomas Carlyle

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Age Old Ourselves Sorrow 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
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
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Desire Development Man Power Stop
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
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
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
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative 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
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
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
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
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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