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 CARLYLEOf all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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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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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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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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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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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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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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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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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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