A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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