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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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 man lives by believing something.
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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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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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.”
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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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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