Thomas Carlyle Quotes

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.

  

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• A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.

  

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• Appreciate what you've got and follow your heart and you're all good. Don't over-complicate things.

  

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• There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.

  

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• I think it's very rare, as an actor, that you get to a script, or an idea of a script, and you go, "Oh, I just have to do that!" It fell into place very quickly.

  

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• He who receives Communion is made holy and Divinized in soul and body in the same way that water, set over a fire, becomes boiling... Communion works like yeast that has been mixed into dough so that it leavens the whole mass; ...Just as by melting two candles together you get one piece of wax, so, I think, one who receives the Flesh and Blood of Jesus is fused together with Him by this Communion, and the soul finds that he is in Christ and Christ is in him

  

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• For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Judgment
  • Qualities
  • Pronouncing