A man lives by believing something.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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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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