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 CARLYLEHistory: A distillation of rumor.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don’t happen at all.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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A man lives by believing something.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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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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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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