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• Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight. -- Thomas Carlyle
• 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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• Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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• A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish historia...
• How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• One monster there is in the world, the idle man. -- Thomas Carlyle
• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
• The universe is but one vast Symbol of God. -- Thomas Carlyle