Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLEA laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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