If 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.
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.
THOMAS CARLYLEOnce the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
THOMAS CARLYLEEndurance is patience concentrated.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
THOMAS CARLYLEExperience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe 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.
THOMAS CARLYLEDemocracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLEIn every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
THOMAS CARLYLEBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
THOMAS CARLYLENothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
THOMAS CARLYLESpeech is silver, silence is golden.
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.
THOMAS CARLYLEOld age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
THOMAS CARLYLESee deep enough, and you see musically.
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