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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Thomas Carlyle

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Labor Wasted Time Work Writing
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching 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
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Future Sleep Time Travel Way
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Himself Kind Man Problem Universe Work
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
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
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
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Act Fear Himself Man
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
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk
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
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacle Path Perspective Strong Weakness

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