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.
THOMAS CARLYLEPopular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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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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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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A man lives by believing something.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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