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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

Thomas Carlyle

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
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Business Distance Doubt Hands Lying See
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
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
No pressure, no diamonds.
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Diamond Jewel One Liner Pressure
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
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
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
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
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
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
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

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

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