Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLEMusic is well said to be the speech of angels.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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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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Foolish 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.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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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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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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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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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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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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