No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
THOMAS CARLYLEWriting is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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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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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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