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13535 quotesDo the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Duty
Thomas Carlyle
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Egotism
Thomas Carlyle
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
Suffering
Thomas Carlyle
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
Wisdom
Thomas Carlyle
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
Heroes and Heroism
Thomas Carlyle
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History is the distillation of rumor.
History and Historians
Thomas Carlyle
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Biography
Thomas Carlyle
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Ignorance
Thomas Carlyle
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Universe
Thomas Carlyle
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
Vision
Thomas Carlyle
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Speakers and Speaking
Thomas Carlyle
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If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
Fashion
Thomas Carlyle
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Enemies
Thomas Carlyle
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Music
Thomas Carlyle
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Beginning
Thomas Carlyle
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Loneliness
Thomas Carlyle
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Behavior
Thomas Carlyle
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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
Laughter
Thomas Carlyle
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
Politicians and Politics
Thomas Carlyle
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Love
Thomas Carlyle
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Honesty
Thomas Carlyle
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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
Romance and Romanticism
Thomas Carlyle
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Greatness
Thomas Carlyle
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
Vision
Thomas Carlyle
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun