When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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A man lives by believing something.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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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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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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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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