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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A man lives by believing something.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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