Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
THOMAS CARLYLEShow me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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The 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.
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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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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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A man lives by believing something.
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