Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
THOMAS CARLYLETeach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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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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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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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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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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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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