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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

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
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
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
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
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Fall Notice Silence Tree
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
A man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Himself Learning Man Work World
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Appearance Love Soul Unity

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