Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
THOMAS CARLYLEA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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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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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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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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