Thomas Carlyle on man
Thomas Carlyle101 quotes“No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.”
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle 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.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle See deep enough, and you see musically.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Without kindness there can be no true joy.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle 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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