A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLEWriting is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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