You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
THOMAS CARLYLEStop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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