Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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No pressure, no diamonds.
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