Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLEA loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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