Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
THOMAS CARLYLEOur grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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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 loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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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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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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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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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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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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