It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
THOMAS CARLYLEHe who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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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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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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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