Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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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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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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