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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

Thomas Carlyle

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Business Distance Doubt Hands Lying See
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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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
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
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Desire Development Man Power Stop
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacle Path Perspective Strong Weakness
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
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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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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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
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Calm God Hands Issues Leaving

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