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.
THOMAS CARLYLEMusic is well said to be the speech of angels.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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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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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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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