Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
THOMAS CARLYLEThere 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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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