Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhat 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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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 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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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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