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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

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
It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Deep Himself Man Poet Sincere Vision
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible 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
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
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Argument Believe Live Man
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
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
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
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

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

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