Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe 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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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