Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one.
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No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here.
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Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
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What greater ornament to a son than a father's glory, or to a father than a son's honorable conduct?
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Silence is an ornament for women.
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Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered.
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To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
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The admirals of his majesty's fleet are classed into three squadrons, viz. the red, the white, and the blue.
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He has his good side and his bad side. Very dark indeed is his majesty when he wants to be. When he was young, he made a choice, like a tree does when it decides to grow one way or the other. He grew large and green until he shadowed over the whole forest, but most of his branches are twisted.
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Another of the strange and evil tendencies of the present day is the decoration of the railroad station... There was never more flagrant nor impertinent folly than the smallest portion of ornament in anything connected with the railroads... Railroad architecture has or would have a dignity of its own if it were only left to its work.
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Oh, most magnificent and noble Nature! Have I not worshipped thee with such a love As never mortal man before displayed? Adored thee in thy majesty of visible creation, And searched into thy hidden and mysterious ways As Poet, as Philosopher, as Sage?
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Most works are most beautiful without ornament.
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Gamble everything for love, if you are a true human being. If not, leave this gathering. Half–heartedness doesn’t reach into majesty.
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Happy the soul that has been awed by a view of God's majesty.
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All the troubles of the world, especially the spiritual, such as grief, impatience, disillusionment, despair, the truly basic troubles of man-they came about only because of the failure to view clearly the majesty of God.
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I have younger friends who are in this pinch where they feel they've been counted out before they've had a chance to prove themselves. They've inherited a lot of debt - not just student debt but environmental debt, political debt. They really feel squeezed.
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When I first came to the United States in 1956 I fell in love with things - mainly the vitality and the freedoms.
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Great literature cannot grow from a neglected or impoverished soil. Only if we actually tend or care will it transpire that every hundred years or so we might get a Middlemarch.
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I come from a place where breath, eyes, and memory are one, a place from which you carry your past like a hair on your head. Where women return to their children as butterflies or as tears in the eyes of the statues that their daughters pray to
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The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.
