When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
THOMAS CARLYLEConviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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