Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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 block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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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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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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