You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
THOMAS CARLYLEA great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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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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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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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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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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