Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhat 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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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A man lives by believing something.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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