Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
THOMAS CARLYLEWriting is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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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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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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There are remedies for all things but 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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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