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History: A distillation of rumor.

Thomas Carlyle

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
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Chance Forever Life Oneself
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
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
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Belief Deep Hard Time Health Hope Motivational
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Honesty Man World Yourself
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
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Business Distance Doubt Hands Lying See
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching 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
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Calm God Hands Issues Leaving
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
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
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
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
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Impossible Noble One Liner Work
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk

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