Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLEStop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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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.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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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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A man lives by believing something.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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