A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLEBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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 loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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