A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.

Thomas Carlyle

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Endurance is patience concentrated. by Thomas Carlyle

Endurance is patience concentrated.

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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but wh... by Thomas Carlyle

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing a... by Thomas Carlyle

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything. by Thomas Carlyle

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determin... by Thomas Carlyle

Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. by Thomas Carlyle

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time. by Thomas Carlyle

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

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Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you a... by Thomas Carlyle

Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever... by Thomas Carlyle

Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.

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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees ar... by Thomas Carlyle

Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

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Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear. by Thomas Carlyle

The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes. by Thomas Carlyle

No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. by Thomas Carlyle

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

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