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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle 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.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle No person is important enough to make me angry.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle 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.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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