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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two everlasting empires, necessity and free will.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
No person is important enough to make me angry.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
No pressure, no diamonds.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Written by Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Written by Thomas Carlyle

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