If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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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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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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