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Speech is silver, silence is golden.

Thomas Carlyle

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
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
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
A man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
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
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
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
Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Impossible Noble One Liner Work
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
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Greatness Oneself Trouble
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself

Speech is silver, silence is golden.

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