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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

Thomas Carlyle

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
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Flow Heart Joy Kindness Laughter True
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Himself Kind Man Problem Universe Work
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
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
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
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
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Animal Bird Demand Learning Politics Supply Word 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
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
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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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Desire Development Man Power Stop
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
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
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Deep Freedom Man World
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
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop 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
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Fear Man One Liner Responsibility
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Believe Errors Himself Man Mistake Truth Unity Way
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

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