Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My Dear! That love of yours was mine.
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
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And there are Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare in wit-combat, sure enough; Ben bearing down like a mighty Spanish war-ship, fraught with all learning and artillery; Shakespeare whisking away from him - whisking right through him, athwart the big bulk and timbers of him; like a miraculous Celestial Light-ship, woven all of sheet-lightning and sunbeams!
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.
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There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
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Rest is for the dead.
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The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.
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He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
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Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
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Custom doth make dotards of us all.
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A collection of books is the best of all universities.
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A Fourth Estate, of Able Editors, springs up.
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Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.
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It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the centre of gravity of the universe.
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
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Close thy Byron ; open thy Goethe .
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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
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The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness.