A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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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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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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