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.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhen the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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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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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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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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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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A man lives by believing something.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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