Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLEDoubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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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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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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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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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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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