I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
THOMAS CARLYLEOne life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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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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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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