You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
THOMAS CARLYLEIn every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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