A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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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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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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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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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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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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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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A man lives by believing something.
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