Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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