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

Thomas Carlyle

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Bad Change Fortune Goodness Ourselves Time
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
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
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
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
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
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
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
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing

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

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