Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
THOMAS CARLYLEIn every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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