No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
THOMAS CARLYLETeach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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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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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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