A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLETeach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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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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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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