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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Thomas Carlyle

The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Himself Learning Man Work World
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.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Fall Notice Silence Tree
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.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Blessing Himself Work
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Goal Incomplete Man
A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Believe Errors Himself Man Mistake Truth Unity Way
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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Person Progress Purpose Road Rough
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Celebration Conscience Defeat Sin Song Success Victory
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Appearance Love Soul Unity
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action Alone End Kind
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.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Kind Man Misery Negative Work
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Act Fear Himself Man
If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Deep Enough Heart Music Nature Search
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLE

Life Oneself Rare Writing

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