Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
THOMAS CARLYLEWeak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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A man lives by believing something.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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