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 CARLYLEIf Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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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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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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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