Every noble work is at first impossible.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...

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

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

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it...

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it...

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not...

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...

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it...

Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it...

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...

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...

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men,...

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men,...

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

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...

Silence is more eloquent than words

Silence is more eloquent than words

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and...

Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and...

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all...

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all...

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.