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.
THOMAS CARLYLELove is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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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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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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