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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

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Generosity Himself Live Man Way 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
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
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
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
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
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
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Act Fear Himself Man
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
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
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
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself

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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