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

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at...

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of...

He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better,...

Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better,...

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is...

It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

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

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

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there...

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there...

Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism,...

Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism,...

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary...