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 CARLYLEPopular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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A man lives by believing something.
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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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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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