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12663 quotesNo man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
Vision
Thomas Carlyle
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Laughter
Thomas Carlyle
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No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Critics and Criticism
Thomas Carlyle
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Persuasion
Thomas Carlyle
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Insights
Thomas Carlyle
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Cheerfulness
Thomas Carlyle
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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.
Age and Aging
Thomas Carlyle
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Certainty
Thomas Carlyle
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Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
Potential
Thomas Carlyle
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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
Present
Thomas Carlyle
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
Reality
Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
Silence
Thomas Carlyle
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Speech
Thomas Carlyle
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Advice
Thomas Carlyle
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Leaders and Leadership
Thomas Carlyle
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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Books - Reading
Thomas Carlyle
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Courage
Thomas Carlyle
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Temperament
Thomas Carlyle
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
Despair
Thomas Carlyle
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Fear
Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Wisdom
Thomas Carlyle
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The heart always sees before than the head can see.
Heart
Thomas Carlyle
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The king is the man who can.
Ability
Thomas Carlyle
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun