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!
THOMAS CARLYLEOf all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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 eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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A man lives by believing something.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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