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.
THOMAS CARLYLEStop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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