Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
THOMAS CARLYLEHistory: A distillation of rumor.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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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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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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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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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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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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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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