Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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