"In idleness there is a perpetual despair." — Thomas Carlyle
"In idleness there is a perpetual despair."
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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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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
— Karen Armstrong
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So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the…
— Antonin Artaud
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Los Angeles was an impression of failure, of disappointment, of despair, and of oddly makeshift lives. This is California? I…
— Joseph Barbera
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Action is the antidote to despair.
— Joan Baez
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To my utter despair I have discovered, and discover every day anew, that there is in the masses no revolutionary…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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Men die in despair, while spirits die in ecstasy.
— Honore de Balzac
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Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to…
— Georges Bataille
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It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than…
— Charles Baudelaire
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We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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I will indulge my sorrows, and give way to all the pangs and fury of despair.
— Joseph Addison
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Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
— Hector Berlioz
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But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.
— Theodor Adorno
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