A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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