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12346 quotesMake yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Honesty
Thomas Carlyle
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
Spirit and Spirituality
Thomas Carlyle
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Greatness
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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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
Materialism
Thomas Carlyle
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Insights
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 is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
Music
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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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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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Mystery
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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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Sentiment
Thomas Carlyle
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
Belief
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 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 fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Doubt
Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Faults
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