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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.

Thomas Carlyle

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
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
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
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Big Ideas Mindset Original Place State
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Determination Material Possession True Worth Yourself
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Life Oneself Rare Writing
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
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
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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Animal Bird Demand Learning Politics Supply Word Yourself
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
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work

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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