Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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