Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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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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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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