Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
THOMAS CARLYLEDemocracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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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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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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