Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLEIt’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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