Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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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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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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