A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
THOMAS CARLYLEHistory: A distillation of rumor.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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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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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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