There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
THOMAS CARLYLEFoolish 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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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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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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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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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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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