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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

Thomas Carlyle

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
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
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself 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
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
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
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Labor Wasted Time Work Writing
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Fear Man One Liner Responsibility
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
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
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 eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
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
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
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
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
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
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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