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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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.
"Do the duty which lies nearest thee," which thou knowest to be thy duty. Thy second duty will already have become clear.
This little life has its duties that are great-that are alone great, and that go up to heaven and down to hell.
There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
Eternity looks grander and kinder if Time grow meaner and more hostile.
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but against evil only.
Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
Our very walking is an incessant falling; a falling and a catching of ourselves before we come actually to the pavement. It is emblematic of all things a man does.
Violence Quote
Violence never settles anything right: apart from injuring your own soul, it injures the best cause. It lingers on long after the object of hate has disappeared from the scene to plague the lives of those who have employed it against their foes.
Success Quote
Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value.
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