They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
THOMAS CARLYLEOne monster there is in the world, the idle man.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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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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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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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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A man lives by believing something.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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