There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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 as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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