Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.Thomas Carlyle
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
Thomas Carlyle
Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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Fame, we may understand is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such it is an accident, not a property of a man.
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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
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Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.
Thomas Carlyle
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