"A man willing to work, and unable to……" — Thomas Carlyle
"A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun."
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Thomas Carlyle
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592 Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's…
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all…
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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The law itself exhibits justice and teaches wisdom by abstinence from sensible images and by calling out to the Maker…
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This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting…
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The animal kingdom exhibits a series of mental developments which may be regarded as antecedents to the mental development of…
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After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension…
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The most effectual means of preventing the perversion of power into tyranny are to illuminate, as far as practicable, the…
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He exhibits the most extraordinary capacity for middle age that I've ever encountered in a young man of twenty-four.
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Geological facts being of an historical nature, all attempts to deduce a complete knowledge of them merely from their still,…
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The best museums and museum exhibits about science or technology give you the feeling that, hey, this is interesting, but…
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You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it.…
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The truth is that the general genius of a government is all that can be substantially relied upon for permanent…
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America united with a handful of troops, or without a single soldier, exhibits a more forbidding posture to foreign ambition…
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