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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

Thomas Carlyle

Humor

Love

To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

Thought is the parent of the deed.

Thomas Carlyle

Thought

Deed

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

Thomas Carlyle

Oak

Silence

No violent extreme endures.

Thomas Carlyle

Extreme

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

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.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Thomas Carlyle

Nothing

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.