Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one

Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. – Thomas Carlyle

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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. – Thomas Carlyle

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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect! – Thomas Carlyle

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then. – Thomas Carlyle

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No one can earn a million dollars honestly. – William Jennings Bryan

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A lie may take care of the present, but it has no future. – Author Unknown

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The truth needs so little rehearsal. – Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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Occasionally he stumbled over the truth, but hastily picked himself up and hurried on as if nothing had happened. – Winston Churchill, “ear-witness” quoting c.1936 about Stanley Baldwi

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The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time. – Thomas Jefferson

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Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose. – Sir Thomas Browne

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When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. – Sydney J. Harris

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