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.
THOMAS CARLYLEHe who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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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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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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