No person is important enough to make me angry.
THOMAS CARLYLEThey only are wise who know that they know nothing.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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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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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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A man lives by believing something.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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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History: A distillation of rumor.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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