Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
THOMAS CARLYLEYou can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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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.
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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 great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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