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 CARLYLETeach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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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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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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