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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.

Thomas Carlyle

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Affection Crime Forever Love Misery Mom Myself Yourself
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Fear Man One Liner Responsibility
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Appearance Love Soul Unity
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
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
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Big Ideas Mindset Original Place State
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Believe Errors Himself Man Mistake Truth Unity Way
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
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
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Flow Heart Joy Kindness Laughter True
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
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
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind

Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.

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