A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLEWeak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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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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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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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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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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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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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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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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