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“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”
― On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
― On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
“If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.”
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“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”
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“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”
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“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.”
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“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”
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“My books are friends that never fail me."
(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)”
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(Letter to his mother, Margaret A. Carlyle; 17 March 1817)”
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“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”
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“Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.”
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“Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one less scoundrel in the world.”
― On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
― On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
“Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.”
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“Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world. ”
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“The tragedy of life is not so much what
men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
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men suffer, but rather what they miss.”
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“A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.”
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“Silence is deep as Eternity, speech is shallow as Time.”
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“The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.”
― On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
― On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
“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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“Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.”
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“A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things.”
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“Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are”
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“A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.”
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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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“The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.”
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“The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.”
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“The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.”
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“A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.”
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“The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.”
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“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.”
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“The true University of these days is a Collection of Books.”
― On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
― On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History
“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.”
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