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.
THOMAS CARLYLEDo not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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