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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.

Thomas Carlyle

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
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
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 well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
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
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
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 merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
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
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy

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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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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