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 CARLYLEWho 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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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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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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.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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