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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Thomas Carlyle

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
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
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
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
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
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
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
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
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
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong

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