Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLEToday is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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