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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

A man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Determination Material Possession True Worth Yourself
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk
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
Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Concentration Deep Endurance Focus One Liner Patience
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Labor Wasted Time Work Writing
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
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
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
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
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
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 person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
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
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
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence
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
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Himself Kind Man Problem Universe Work
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

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