A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLEOne life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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