The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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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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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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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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