Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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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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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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