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.
THOMAS CARLYLELaughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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