Quote by Thomas Carlyle
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather wha

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss. – Thomas Carlyle

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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls! – Thomas Carlyle

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. – Thomas Carlyle

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Never separate the life you live from the words you speak. – Paul Wellstone

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I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life. – Theodore Roosevelt

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In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for finding himself. If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence. – Thomas Merton

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Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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