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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

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
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
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
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Deep Himself Man Poet Sincere Vision
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
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
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
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason

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