The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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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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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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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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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