The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEWeak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Every 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.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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