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THOMAS CARLYLEI’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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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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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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