No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
THOMAS CARLYLEWho 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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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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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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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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