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

Thomas Carlyle

Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Food Fun God Himself People
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Believe Himself Man Original Sincere
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
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
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Chance Forever Life Oneself
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Act Kind Possible Recognition
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Believe Force God Grace Himself Judgement Kind Soul
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

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