Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLEEverywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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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.
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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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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