Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLEDo 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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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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 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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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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