Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLEIt’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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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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What 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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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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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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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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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