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.
THOMAS CARLYLEYou can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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A man lives by believing something.
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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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