The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
Thomas Carlyle Quotations
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts.
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.
No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
When words leave off, music begins.
A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.
It is not a lucky word, this name "impossible"; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one.
No sadder proof can be given by man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laugther, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
The Courage that we all prize and seek is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.
One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
The true university of these days is a collection of books.