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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

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
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Celebration Conscience Defeat Sin Song Success Victory
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
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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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
Silence is more eloquent than words.
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One Liner Silence Word
Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Lie Path Way Work Yourself
Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Gold Silence Talk Worth
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Moments Stop Yourself
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Forever Himself Hold On Time Vision
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Gift Leaving Person See
Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Common Himself Love Togetherness
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Act Kind Possible Recognition
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Act Fear Himself Man
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor

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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