Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if...

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if...

Biography is the only true history

Biography is the only true history

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man...

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man...

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation...

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.

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.

Work alone is noble.

Work alone is noble.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we...

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we...

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

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

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

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...

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...

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.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we...

Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we...

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes...

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes...

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

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

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Worship is transcendent wonder.