Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLENo 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!
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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