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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.

Thomas Carlyle

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
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
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Appearance Love Soul Unity
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
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
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
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Fear Man One Liner Responsibility
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
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
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
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Believe Himself Man Original Sincere
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source

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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