If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
THOMAS CARLYLEEvery noble work is at first impossible.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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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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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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