Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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