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No person is important enough to make me angry.

Thomas Carlyle

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Age Old Ourselves Sorrow Work
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Deep Himself Man Poet Sincere Vision
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person 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
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Deep Enough Heart Music Nature Search
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative 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
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Food Fun God Himself People
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
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness

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