Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn...

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a...

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a...

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

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

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...

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

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...

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to...

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to...

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

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

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

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...

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

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

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to...

For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to...

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

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

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

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...

We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most...

We ourselves of the present age, chose our common law, and consented to the most...

Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give...

Some politicians hold that the only way to make a revolutionary safe is to give...