No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

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...

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

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...

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...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and...

Society is founded upon cloth.

Society is founded upon cloth.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as...

Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as...

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

The true university of these days is a collection of books.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical...

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical...

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

History is the essence of innumerable biographies

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...

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance

I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him...

And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him...