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.
THOMAS CARLYLETeach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A man lives by believing something.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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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