One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
THOMAS CARLYLEConviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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