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The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
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In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.
Thomas Carlyle
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
Thomas Carlyle -
The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
Thomas Carlyle -
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle -
To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant.
Thomas Carlyle -
Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.
Thomas Carlyle -
Produce, produce! Were it but the pitifulest, infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name. 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee? Out with it then! Up, up! Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy whole might.
Thomas Carlyle
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Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
Thomas Carlyle -
All human souls, never so bedarkened, love light; light once kindled spreads till all is luminous.
Thomas Carlyle -
Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
Thomas Carlyle -
Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle -
One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
Thomas Carlyle -
Happy season of childhood! Kind Nature, that art to all a bountiful mother; that visitest the poor man's hut With auroral radiance; and for thy nursling hast provided a soft swathing of love and infinite hope wherein he waxes and slumbers, danced round by sweetest dreams!
Thomas Carlyle
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
Thomas Carlyle -
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
Thomas Carlyle -
It is now almost my sole rule of life to clear myself of cants and formulas, as of poisonous Nessus shirts.
Thomas Carlyle -
The true Sovereign of the world, who moulds the world like soft wax, according to his pleasure, is he who lovingly sees into the world.
Thomas Carlyle -
In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the world's Priest; -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
Thomas Carlyle -
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Thomas Carlyle
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Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.
Thomas Carlyle -
Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
Thomas Carlyle -
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
Thomas Carlyle -
Venerable to me is the hard hand,--crooked, coarse,--wherein, notwithstanding, lies a cunning virtue, indispensably royal as of the sceptre of the planet.
Thomas Carlyle