There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
THOMAS CARLYLEWhat 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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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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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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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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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