A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
THOMAS CARLYLENothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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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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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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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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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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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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