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 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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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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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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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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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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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