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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.

Thomas Carlyle

There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Money Pay Price Way
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
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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Age Old Ourselves Sorrow Work
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
A man lives by believing something.
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Believe Live Man One Liner
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Action Life Question True
No pressure, no diamonds.
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Diamond Jewel One Liner Pressure
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
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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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
Today 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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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Deep Enough Music See Yourself
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
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
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Better Education Mistake Teaching Understand Yourself

Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.

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