"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."

Carlyle, Thomas on cheerfulness   

"Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be."

Carlyle, Thomas on character
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"By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears."

Carlyle, Thomas on change
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"The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity."

Carlyle, Thomas on books - reading
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"What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books."

Carlyle, Thomas on books - reading
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"Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand."

Carlyle, Thomas on action   

"History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion."

Carlyle, Thomas on solitude
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"Television's perfect. You turn a few knobs, a few of those mechanical adjustments at which the higher apes are so proficient, and lean back and drain your mind of all thought. And there you are watching the bubbles in the primeval ooze. You don't have to concentrate. You don't have to react. You don't have to remember. You don't miss your brain because you don't need it. Your heart and liver and lungs continue to function normally. Apart from that, all is peace and quiet. You are in the man's nirvana. And if some poor nasty minded person comes along and says you look like a fly on a can of garbage, pay him no mind. He probably hasn't got the price of a television set."

Chandler, Raymond on vision   

"The dearest friend on earth is a mere shadow compared to Jesus Christ."

Chambers, Oswald on friends and friendship
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"You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas."

Chisholm, Shirley Anita on progress   

"We write our own destiny; we become what we do."

Chiang Kai-Shek, Madame on destiny
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"Every noble work is at first impossible."

Carlyle, Thomas on work
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"Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight."

Carlyle, Thomas on insights   

"Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward."

Carlyle, Thomas on imagination   

"Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted."

Carlyle, Thomas on humility   

"Let each become all that he was created capable of being."

Carlyle, Thomas on excellence
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"Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer."

Carlyle, Thomas on duty
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"The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done. "

Carlyle, Thomas on uncategorised
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"Earnestness is not by any means everything; it is very often a subtle form of pious pride because it is obsessed with the method and not with the Master."

Chambers, Oswald on determination   

"It is a rare person who wants to hear want he doesn't want to hear."

Cavett, Dick on listening
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"A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things."

Carlyle, Thomas on argument   

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"When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself."

Chambers, Oswald on adversity
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"Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please."

Chambers, Oswald on books - reading   

"Do not let circumstances control you. You change your circumstances."

Chan, Jackie on circumstance
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"It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe."

Carlyle, Thomas on vocation   

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"Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another, and all against evil only."

Carlyle, Thomas on unity   

"Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite."

Carlyle, Thomas on happiness   

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"No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy."

Carlyle, Thomas on understanding
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"If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all."

Carlyle, Thomas on time   

"O Holy Spirit, descend plentifully into my heart. Enlighten the dark corners of this neglected dwelling and scatter there Thy cheerful beams."

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"If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself."

Augustine, St. on belief
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"I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all the books I want to read and all the friends I want to see."

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"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Burke, Edmund on evil
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"The person interested in success has to learn to view failure as a healthy, inevitable part of the process of getting to the top."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on mistakes
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"Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable."

Brothers, Dr. Joyce on love
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"Humor is just another defense against the universe."

Brooks, Mel on humor   

"Every human being has hundreds of separate people living under his skin. The talent of a writer is his ability to give them their separate names, identities, personalities and have them relate to other characters living with him."

Brooks, Mel on writers and writing
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"If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own."

Bronte, Charlotte on friends and friendship
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"Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life."

Brecht, Bertolt on life
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"Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done."

Brandeis, Louis D. on impossibility
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