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.
THOMAS CARLYLENaps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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