Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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