Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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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.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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