Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
THOMAS CARLYLENothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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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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No pressure, no diamonds.
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