The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.Thomas Carlyle
What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science.
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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
Thomas Carlyle
Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
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