A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLEThey only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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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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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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A man lives by believing something.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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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