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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.

Thomas Carlyle

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacle Path Perspective Strong Weakness
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
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
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
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
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Belief Deep Hard Time Health Hope Motivational
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 is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Common Himself Love Togetherness
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing

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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