The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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