Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
THOMAS CARLYLELaughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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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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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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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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