If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
THOMAS CARLYLETeach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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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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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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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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