Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
THOMAS CARLYLENot what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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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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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.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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