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 CARLYLEIf you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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