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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

Thomas Carlyle

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
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
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Joy Kindness One Liner True
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Food Fun God Himself People
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work 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
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
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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Himself Learning Man Work World
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Beautiful Element Goodness Mystery Secret Virtue
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
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

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

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