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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.”

Thomas Carlyle

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Himself Kind Man Problem Universe Work
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Deep Freedom Man World
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Build Confidence
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
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
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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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
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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Food Fun God Himself People
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
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Greatness Lying Opinion Popular World

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