One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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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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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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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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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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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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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 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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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