Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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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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