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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

Thomas Carlyle

Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Demand Economy Teaching Yourself
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
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
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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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Big Ideas Mindset Original Place State
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Believe Force God Grace Himself Judgement Kind Soul
Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Democracy Government Hero Satisfaction Yourself
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Honor Kind Man Yourself
They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Deep Knowledge Man Wisdom
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition Boredom Greatness Myself
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Blessing Himself Work
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Act Kind Possible Recognition
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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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher

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