Quote by Thomas Carlyle
Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselv

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. – Thomas Carlyle

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune. – Thomas Carlyle

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good
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. – Thomas Carlyle

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teacher
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. – Thomas Carlyle

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My wife, whenever Id go off to work and Id be kind of anxious, shell say, Remember, have fun. Oh, I forgot, thanks for the reminder. Because sometimes we do forget. We take it all too seriously and theres a lot of joy to be had wherever you are. – Jeff Bridges

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Of all the things Ive done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal. – Walt Disney

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You dont have to turn on the TV set. You dont have to work on the Internet. Its up to you. – Ray Bradbury

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A dog that barks much is never a good hunter. – Proverb

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It is necessary; therefore, it is possible. – G. A. Borghese

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A lot of women these days, a lot of young women dont want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous girl power sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think its a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion. – Ani DiFranco

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The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas. – George Santayana

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Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference. – Edmund Burke

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