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Thomas Carlyle
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"Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand." -
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Thomas Carlyle
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Top 5 quotes from Thomas Carlyle
"I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."
"It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe."
"Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time."
"A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one."
"Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity."
Top 5 quotes from Lies, Sin
"By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered."
"There are some people that if they don't know, you can't tell 'em."
"How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks."
"It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."
"People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned."
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