History: A distillation of rumor.
THOMAS CARLYLEMake yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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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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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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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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