Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
THOMAS CARLYLENo person is important enough to make me angry.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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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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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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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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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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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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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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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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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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