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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.

Thomas Carlyle

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
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Fall Notice Silence Tree
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Honesty Man World Yourself
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
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
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
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
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation

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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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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