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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Thomas Carlyle

Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
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
Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Impossible Noble One Liner Work
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Deep Forever Shallow Silence Talk Time
Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Age Old Ourselves Sorrow Work
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
The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Battle Belief Deep End Philosophy
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
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Money Pay Price Way
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Calm God Hands Issues Leaving
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Deep Enough Heart Music Nature Search
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong

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