Every noble work is at first impossible.
THOMAS CARLYLEEgotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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