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.
THOMAS CARLYLEDo nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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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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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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