Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie 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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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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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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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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