Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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