The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEToday 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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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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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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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