Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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