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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.

Thomas Carlyle

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
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
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
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
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Deep Freedom Man World
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
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
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
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
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

Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.

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