Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLETeach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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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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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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