Without kindness there can be no true joy.
THOMAS CARLYLEDemocracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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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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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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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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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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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