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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

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Ego Misery Negative Source
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
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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Animal Bird Demand Learning Politics Supply Word Yourself
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Deep Enough Heart Music Nature Search
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Noble Originality Sincere
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
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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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself
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
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Human Laughter Man Privilege Reason
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Action Wasted Time Worth
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
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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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth

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