Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Who 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.
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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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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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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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