There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
THOMAS CARLYLENo man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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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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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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A man lives by believing something.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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