Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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 first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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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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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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