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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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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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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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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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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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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