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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

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Himself Learning Man Work World
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
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
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
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
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
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
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Belief Deep Hard Time Health Hope Motivational
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Fear Man One Liner Responsibility
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Bad Change Fortune Goodness Ourselves Time
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way

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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