A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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

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

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an...

That a parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an...

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to...

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to...

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....

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and...

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...

Manners are stronger than laws

Manners are stronger than laws

Debt is a bottomless sea.

Debt is a bottomless sea.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was...

Teach a parrot the terms supply and demand and you've got an economist.

Teach a parrot the terms supply and demand and you've got an economist.

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...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with...

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always...

If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always...

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred...

When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred...