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!
THOMAS CARLYLEThey only are wise who know that they know nothing.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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 first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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