A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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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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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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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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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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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A man lives by believing something.
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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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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