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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
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Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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What a wretched thing is all fame! A renown of the highest sort endures, say, for two thousand years. And then? Why, then, a fathomless eternity swallows it. Work for eternity not the meagre rhetorical eternity of the periodical critics, but for the real eternity wherein dwelleth the Divine.
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Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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