Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
THOMAS CARLYLENothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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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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