The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
THOMAS CARLYLEPopular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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 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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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