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.
THOMAS CARLYLEWriting is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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A man lives by believing something.
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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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