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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.

Thomas Carlyle

No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity Direction Terrible Work
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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Animal Bird Demand Learning Politics Supply Word Yourself
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Bad Change Fortune Goodness Ourselves Time
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Believe Himself Man Original Sincere
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Food Fun God Himself People
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
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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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
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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Himself Learning Man Work World
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Big Ideas Mindset Original Place State
No pressure, no diamonds.
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Diamond Jewel One Liner Pressure
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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Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself

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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