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.
THOMAS CARLYLELaughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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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.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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