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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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmasters eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you. – Thomas Carlyle

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Responsibility
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy. – Thomas Carlyle

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

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Truth
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Reality is bad enough. Why should I tell the truth? – Patrick Sky

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Open confession is good for the soul. – Scottish Proverb

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A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. – Saki

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Who lies for you will lie against you. – Bosnian Proverb

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I will open my mouth in a parable
I will utter dark sayings of old.
Things that we have heard and known,
that our fathers told us.
We will not hide them from their children,
but tell it to the coming generations. – Bible

Category:
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I love the fact that there are also women out there that dont have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too. – Ann Romney

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I often begin movies with music in my head its a very important dimension to me. Not just the music itself, but how to use music in film: when and how and subtlety. I dont like to be too sweet in my stories, and I like the abrasive clang, the contrasting of sounds and cultures. – Mira Nair

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The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife. – Danny DeVito

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