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.
THOMAS CARLYLEEndurance is patience concentrated.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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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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