Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLEDo the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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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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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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 past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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 man lives by believing something.
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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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