Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is...

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is...

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had...

The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had...

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...

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin;...

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin;...

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

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

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...

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

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...

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but...

The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but...

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this,...

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this,...

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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.

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...

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma,...

As a first approximation, I define belief not as the object of believing (a dogma,...

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of...

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

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.

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...

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.