The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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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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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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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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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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