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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

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
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Affection Crime Forever Love Misery Mom Myself Yourself
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
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
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Honesty Man World Yourself
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
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
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
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
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
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
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
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Common Himself Love Togetherness
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
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
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

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