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.
THOMAS CARLYLEWriting is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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A man lives by believing something.
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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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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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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 man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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