Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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