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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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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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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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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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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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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