A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
THOMAS CARLYLETalk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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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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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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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