Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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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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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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