They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
THOMAS CARLYLETo 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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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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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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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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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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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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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