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A whiff of grapeshot. (Thomas Carlyle)
Captains of Industry. View quote
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Love not Pleasure; love God. View quote
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By nature man hates change seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears. View quote
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. View quote
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. View quote
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In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded. View quote
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There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done. View quote
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With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much. View quote
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith. View quote
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A man perfects himself by work much more than by reading. (Thomas Carlyle)
He who first shortened the labor of copyists by device of movable types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most kings and senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing. View quote
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A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one. View quote
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Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero. View quote
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Having a purpose in life, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you. View quote
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In epochs when cash payment has become the sole nexus of man to man. View quote
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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity. View quote
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Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind - honest work, which you intend getting done. View quote
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Perseverance is patience concentrated. View quote
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Genius is 'the inspired gift of God.' It is the clearer presence of God Most High in a man. Dim, potential in all men; in this man it has become clear, actual. View quote
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We are to remember what an umpire Nature is; what a greatness, composure of depth and tolerance there is in her. You take wheat to cast into the Earth's bosom; your wheat may be mixed with chaff, chopped straw, barn-sweepings, dust and all imaginable rubbish; no matter: you cast it into the kind just Earth; she grows the wheat, - the whole rubbish she silently absorbs, shrouds it in, says nothing of the rubbish. (Thomas Carlyle)
Talk never yet could guide any man's or nation's affairs; nor will it yours, except towards the Limbus Patrum, where all talk, except a very select kind of it, lodges at last. View quote
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All work, even cotton spinning, is noble; work is alone noble ... A life of ease is not for any man, nor for any god. View quote
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But greatly his most important culture he had gathered - and this, too, by his own endeavors - from the better part of the district, the religious men; to whom, as to the most excellent, his own nature gradually attached and attracted him. He was religious with the consent of his whole faculties. Without religion he would have been nothing. View quote
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On the whole, ought I not to rejoice that God was pleased to give me such a father; that from earliest years I had the example of a real man of God's own making continually before me? Let me learn of him. Let me write my books as he built his houses, and walk as blamelessly through this shadow world; if God so will, to rejoin him at last. Amen. View quote
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