History: A distillation of rumor.
THOMAS CARLYLELaughter 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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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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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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A man lives by believing something.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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