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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas Carlyle
Unbelief
The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Thomas Carlyle
Power
Eye
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas Carlyle
Thought
Action
End
Man
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Thomas Carlyle
Today
Yesterday
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Thomas Carlyle
Infinite
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle
Life
Youth
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
Idleness
Labor
Writing
Worship is transcendent wonder.
Thomas Carlyle
Wonder
Worship
Work alone is noble.
Thomas Carlyle
Work
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.
Thomas Carlyle
Power
Time
Strength
Cheerfulness
Endurance
Man
Will
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Thomas Carlyle
Wonder
Worship
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle
Obedience
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
Eyes
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle
Life
Behavior
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas Carlyle
Thought
Man