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!
THOMAS CARLYLEA loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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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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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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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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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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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