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.
THOMAS CARLYLEEverywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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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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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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