The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
THOMAS CARLYLEEndurance is patience concentrated.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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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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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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