Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
THOMAS CARLYLEDo not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
THOMAS CARLYLEIn every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
THOMAS CARLYLEExperience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
THOMAS CARLYLEOur grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
THOMAS CARLYLENo man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
THOMAS CARLYLEWeak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLELaughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLEStop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
THOMAS CARLYLESpeech is silver, silence is golden.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
THOMAS CARLYLESecrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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