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 CARLYLEI’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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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.
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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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