It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
THOMAS CARLYLEOnce the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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