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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

Men, Monsters, World

Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.174

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

Life, Faith, Believe

Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.161

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

Love, Inspirational, Anniversary

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.57, Cambridge University Press

Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Life, Motivational, Confidence

Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.397, Lulu.com

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.

Being Strong, Hope, Expectations

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

Focus And Concentration, Data, Essentials

Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

Mom, Mother, Forever

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Life, Men, Giving

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

Heart, Men, Evil

Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.21

For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

Adversity, Men, Prosperity

A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Laughter, Kindness, Heart

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Long

Thomas Carlyle (1834). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.195

Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

Inspirational, Motivational, Hard Work

There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

Data, Succeed, Helping

The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

Stars, Dark, Shining

"The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.

Country, Spiritual, Men

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.23

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

Wisdom, Ideas, Mind

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

Laughter, Kindness, True Joy

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

Life, Positive, Sadness

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

School, Experience, Masters

Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.60

He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

Time, Vision, Eternity

Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Inspirational, Motivational, Time

"Signs of the Times". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, www.victorianweb.org. 1829.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Gains, Action

Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.167

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Silence, Eloquent, Silence Is

Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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