Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
THOMAS CARLYLEOld age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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