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 CARLYLEThe eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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