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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

One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Chance Forever Life Oneself
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
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
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
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Better Education Mistake Teaching Understand Yourself
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
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
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
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
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
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 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
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Labor Wasted Time Work Writing
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Food Fun God Himself People
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Deep Freedom Man World
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Money Pay Price Way
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
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
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Fear Man One Liner Responsibility
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time

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