Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLEOne monster there is in the world, the idle man.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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 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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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