You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
THOMAS CARLYLEWork is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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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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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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