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

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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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,...

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.

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...

No violent extreme endures.

No violent extreme endures.

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...

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

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

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it,...

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it,...

Biography is the only true history

Biography is the only true history

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.

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to...

The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to...

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.

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

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

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...

Work alone is noble.

Work alone is noble.

Be not a slave of words.

Be not a slave of words.

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;...

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

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

Debt is a bottomless sea.

Debt is a bottomless sea.

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be...

If borrowing and spending all this money led to more jobs than we would be...

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

I haven't inherited the earth from my parents, I am borrowing it from my children.

When I realize that it is not God who is in my debt but I...

When I realize that it is not God who is in my debt but I...