Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLEThere are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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