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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

Thomas Carlyle

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
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
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
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
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Beginning Heart Knowledge Love One Liner
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Better Education Mistake Teaching Understand Yourself
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
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
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
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
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind

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