Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Who 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.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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