Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLEA man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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