Every noble work is at first impossible.
THOMAS CARLYLEWriting is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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