Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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