Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
THOMAS CARLYLEWork is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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A man lives by believing something.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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