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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

Thomas Carlyle

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Greatness Oneself Trouble
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
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
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
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
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.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Believe Himself Man Original Sincere
Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Concentration Deep Endurance Focus One Liner Patience
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
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
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
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
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True

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