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.
THOMAS CARLYLEOnce the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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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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