Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLEMusic is well said to be the speech of angels.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Foolish 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.
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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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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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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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