Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
THOMAS CARLYLEI’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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