I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
THOMAS CARLYLEMake yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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