A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLETeach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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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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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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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.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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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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