There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
THOMAS CARLYLETell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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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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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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