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.
THOMAS CARLYLETeach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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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 first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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 battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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