You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
THOMAS CARLYLEDo the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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 merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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