Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
THOMAS CARLYLEHistory: A distillation of rumor.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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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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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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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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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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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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