A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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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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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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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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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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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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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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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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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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