Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLEConviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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