Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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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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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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