Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
THOMAS CARLYLEBlessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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If 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.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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A man lives by believing something.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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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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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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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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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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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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