The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
THOMAS CARLYLENo pressure, no diamonds.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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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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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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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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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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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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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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