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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.”

Thomas Carlyle

There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Instruction Precious Wrong
There are remedies for all things but death.
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Cure Death One Liner
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Bad Change Fortune Goodness Ourselves Time
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Kind Man Misery Negative Work
Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Impossible Noble One Liner Work
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Chance Forever Life Oneself
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
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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Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
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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Food Fun God Himself People
A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Flow Heart Joy Kindness Laughter True
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Believe Force God Grace Himself Judgement Kind Soul

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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