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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

Thomas Carlyle

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
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
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
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Age Old Ourselves Sorrow Work
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
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Beginning Heart Knowledge Love One Liner
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
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
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
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
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
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 eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

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