A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhat 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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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