Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
THOMAS CARLYLEHistory: A distillation of rumor.
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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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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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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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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