Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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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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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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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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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