Thomas Carlyle Quotes
An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
Quotes to Explore
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Men and women are different. I don't think men grow a brain until 26 or even 30. Girls mature a lot quicker.
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Over the years, you grow up, you mature and you see things in a different way, and it's reflected in the writing.
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Anyone who watches golf on television would enjoy watching the grass grow on the greens.
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Usually, the creating of the book happens while I'm writing the book. I start with Chapter One, with a few ideas and a handful of characters, and the book grows from there.
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Only by contending with challenges that seem to be beyond your strength to handle at the moment you can grow more surely toward the stars.
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To teach is to show. You can't teach what you don't know. You can't guide where you don't go. And you can't grow what you don't sow.
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You don't have to suffer continual chaos in order to grow.
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The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old.
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Let each hour of the day have its allotted duty, and cultivate that power of concentration which grows with its exercise.
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A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.
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Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root.
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I therefore concluded, and decided unhesitatingly, that there are three stars in the heavens moving about Jupiter, as Venus and Mercury about the Sun; which at length was established as clear as daylight by numerous other observations.
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The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
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Good, the more communicated, more abundant grows.
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The grave is Heaven's golden gate, And rich and poor around it wait; O Shepherdess of England's fold, Behold this gate of pearl and gold!
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Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
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I want to solidify as an artist and show that as I grow as a person and make mistakes and learn from them, I'm going to grow artistically.
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Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!
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Though our smoke may hide the Heavens from your eyes, It will vanish and the stars will shine again, Because, for all our power and weight and size, We are nothing more than children of your brain!
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The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated by day and bewilderment by night by unbearable injustice, and burdened with the ugly weight of discrimination. Forced to live with these shameful conditions, we are tempted to become bitter and retaliate with a corresponding hate. But if this happens, the new order we seek will be little more than a duplicate of the old order. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love.
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I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end.
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Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures, that is, of occurrences that are likely to come to pass if men do not act and if nothing unexpected happens; every action, for better or worse, and every accident necessarily destroys the whole pattern in whose frame the prediction moves and where it finds its evidence.
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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
