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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 great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Flow Heart Joy Kindness Laughter True
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
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
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
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
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
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
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Beautiful Element Goodness Mystery Secret Virtue
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
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
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
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments

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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