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• I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Ambition, Boredom

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• Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Repentance And Forgiveness, Faults

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• A man perfects himself by working.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Past and Present: The Historian”, p.189, 北戴河出版

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• If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Book, Reading

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.136, Lulu.com

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• Habit is the deepest law of human nature

  Thomas Carlyle

  Law, Human Nature, Habit

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.77

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• Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Work, Misery, Cures

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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  Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Gains, Action

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.167

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• Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ego, Faults, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.185, Cambridge University Press

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• Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Shallow Person, Silence

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  "Signs of the Times". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, www.victorianweb.org. 1829.

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• Every noble work is at first impossible.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Positive, Stay Strong, Inspirational Life

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.397, Lulu.com

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• Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Confidence

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.397, Lulu.com

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• Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

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  Wisdom, Ideas, Mind

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• The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.

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  Psychology, Ideals, Impediments

  Thomas Carlyle, Rodger L. Tarr, Mark Engel (2000). “Sartor Resartus: The Life and Opinions of Herr Teufelsdröckh in Three Books”, p.145, Univ of California Press

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• If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

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  Music, Heart, Looks

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• A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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  Life, Faith, Believe

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.161

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• A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

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  Focus And Concentration, Data, Essentials

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• He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

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  Time, Vision, Eternity

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• The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

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  Love, Inspirational, Anniversary

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

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• A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

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  Laughter, Kindness, Heart

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• For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

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  Adversity, Men, Prosperity

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• The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

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  Life, Positive, Sadness

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• Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Lying, Duty

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Work, Men

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.378, Cosimo, Inc.

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