A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLEEvery day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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No 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!
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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