A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to...

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to...

Love is not altogether a , yet it has many points in common therewith

Love is not altogether a , yet it has many points in common therewith

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,...

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an...

Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an...

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

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

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

Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people...

Democracy is cumbersome, slow and inefficient, but in due time, the voice of the people...

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get...

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

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...

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to...

If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to...

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow...

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Every noble work is at first impossible.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I...

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I...

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which...

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which...