It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
THOMAS CARLYLEIf 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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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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.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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