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Thomas Carlyle
I do not...
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Source: The Age...
Originality is a...
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Talk that does...
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
The block of...
The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the...
Endurance is patience...
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Source: In Instant Quotation Dictionary, by...
It is the...
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this...
Silence is the...
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Source:...
Every noble work...
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...
Give me a...
Give me a man who sings at his work.
Source: In My Favorite Quotations, by Norman...
Let me have...
Let me have my own way in exactly everything, and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not...
A fair day's...
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the...
A good book...
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
Source: Speech made in support...
A man lives...
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Do the duty...
'Do the duty that lies nearest thee', which thou knowest to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become...
A crowd has...
A crowd has the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Source: In Webster's...
A man willing...
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under...
A poet without...
A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
Source:...
A man without...
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Source: In
A man cannot...
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
A great man...
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
Source: In...