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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Thomas Carlyle

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Action Kind Talk Togetherness
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Believe Himself Man Original Sincere
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Fall Notice Silence Tree
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
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
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
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
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Belief Deep Hard Time Health Hope Motivational
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
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
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Common Himself Love Togetherness
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See

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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