They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
THOMAS CARLYLEThe soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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 first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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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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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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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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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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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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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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