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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Thomas Carlyle

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.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Greatness Oneself Trouble
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.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Act Kind Possible Recognition
Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Determination Material Possession True Worth Yourself
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Eyes Object Weakness
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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Inspirational Motivational Obstacle Path Perspective Strong Weakness
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
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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Fall Notice Silence Tree
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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Change Force Hope Memories Pain Past Present Work Worth
There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Money Pay Price Way
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Deep Head Heart See
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Brave Help Person Yourself
The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Attraction Deep Fear Past
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Man Nose See Wisdom
Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Demand Economy Teaching Yourself

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