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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
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Happy season of virtuous youth, when shame is still an impassable barrier, and the sacred air-cities of hope have not shrunk into the mean clay hamlets of reality and man, by his nature, is yet infinite and free.
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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There is but one temple in this Universe: The Body. We speak to God whenever we lay our hands upon it.
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Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
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