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.
THOMAS CARLYLEEgotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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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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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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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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