Every noble work is at first impossible.
THOMAS CARLYLEFoolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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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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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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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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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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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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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.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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