There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
THOMAS CARLYLEI’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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