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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

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  Character, Men, Bricks And Mortar

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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

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  Life, Faith, Believe

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.161

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• There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

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  Spiritual, Philosophical, Force

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• The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

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  Wells

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fall, Persistence, Rocks

  "The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1825.

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• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

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  Honesty, Men, World

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• 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.

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  Motivational, Strength, Men

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• Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

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  Men, Repentance And Forgiveness, Faults

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

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  Gains, Action

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

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  Endurance is patience concentrated.

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  Inspirational, Patience, Perseverance

  "One More Step the 638 Best Quotes for the Runner: Motivation for the Next Step". Book by Randy L. Thurman, p. 81, en.wikiquote.org. July 3, 2012.

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• If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

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  Men, Wish, Ifs

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• It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

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  Inspirational, Work, Men

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.378, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

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  Innovation, Insightful, Novelty

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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

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  Being Strong, Hope, Expectations

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

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  Focus And Concentration, Data, Essentials

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

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

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• The purpose of man is in action not thought.

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  Men, Purpose, Action

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• Speech is silver, silence is golden.

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  Silence, Gold, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1897). “The Hero as Man of Letters”

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• Every noble work is at first impossible.

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  Positive, Stay Strong, Inspirational Life

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

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• Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

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  Time, Shallow Person, Silence

  'Critical and Miscellaneous Essays' (1838) 'Sir Walter Scott'.

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• Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

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  Leadership, Worry, Trouble

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  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.

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  Death, Men, Two

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• Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.

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  Hero, Forever, Worship

  Thomas Carlyle (1848). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”

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• Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Adventure

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