A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLEDo nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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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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A man lives by believing something.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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