What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

Quote by Thomas Carlyle

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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to...

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to...

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...

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

No age seemed the age of romance to itself.

History, a distillation of rumour.

History, a distillation of rumour.

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 pressure, no diamonds.

No pressure, no diamonds.

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

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

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its...

When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its...

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in...

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in...

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you...

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you...

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to...

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to...

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough...

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough...

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...

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere...

If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere...

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,...

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,...

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because...

The reformative effect of punishment is a belief that dies hard, chiefly I think, because...