The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
THOMAS CARLYLETell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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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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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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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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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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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