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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

Thomas Carlyle

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
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 soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Appearance Love Soul Unity
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
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
A man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
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
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
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 man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Believe Errors Himself Man Mistake Truth Unity Way
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
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Big Ideas Mindset Original Place State
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
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
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

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