Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
THOMAS CARLYLETalk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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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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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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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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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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