There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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