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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
- Force
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
- Positive
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
- Blue
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
- Gun
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
- Clever
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
- Fearful
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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
- Darkness
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
- Heartily
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
- Obstacle
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
- Distance
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- Life
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
- Fortune
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
- Man
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
- Human
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
- Necessity
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
- Power
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
- Flowing
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
- Important
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
- No Pressure
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No pressure, no diamonds.
- Infinite
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
- Change
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
- He
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
- Man
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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.
- Originality
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
- Men
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
- First
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
- Done
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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Be not a slave of words.
- More
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
- Novelty
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
- Man
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
- Fall
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
- Man
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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.
- Past
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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
- I Am
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
- Alone
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
- Heart
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
- History
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
- Desire
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
- Depth
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
- Giving
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
- Matter
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