He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
THOMAS CARLYLENo person is important enough to make me angry.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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