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 CARLYLESpeech is silver, silence is golden.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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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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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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