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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 man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
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
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
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
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
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
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Bad Change Fortune Goodness Ourselves Time
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Beginning Heart Knowledge Love One Liner
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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