Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
THOMAS CARLYLEA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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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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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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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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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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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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