There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
THOMAS CARLYLEStop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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