No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
THOMAS CARLYLENo iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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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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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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