No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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A man lives by believing something.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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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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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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