No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
THOMAS CARLYLEDo 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 but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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