Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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

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

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get...

If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get...

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no...

Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no...

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books

Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books

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

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

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they...

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they...

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 is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind -...

Work is the grand cure for all maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind -...

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Wonder is the basis of worship.

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything...

Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything...

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

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

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing...

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the...

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...

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography...

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

Silence is as deep as eternity; speech, shallow as time.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A...

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.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.