You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
THOMAS CARLYLEA great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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 that of subduing fear.
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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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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History: A distillation of rumor.
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