One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
THOMAS CARLYLEYou can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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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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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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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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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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