Thomas Carlyle on celebration
Thomas Carlyle101 quotes“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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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Speech is silver, silence is golden.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle 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.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle 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.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Thomas CarlyleThomas Carlyle He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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