Thomas Carlyle Quotes

I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

Thomas Carlyle

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• Here, class attendance is expected and students are required to take notes, which they are tested on. What is missing, it seems to me, is the use of knowledge, the practical training.

  

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• There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.

  

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• Every generation looks at literature through the lens of their own experience, but with the Bible, everyone gets apprehensive and thinks it'll be too stuffy.

  

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• People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.

  

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• God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute.

  

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• The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns.

  

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• In the days since, the question of who won the state of Florida has yet to be answered to everyone's satisfaction, ... That we were all too early in projecting a certain outcome is not open to debate.

  

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• In Manhattan, every flat surface is a potential stage and every inattentive waiter an unemployed, possibly unemployable, actor.

  

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• I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

  

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• The wrong way to step forward in this campaign.

  

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• Played percussively, the piano is a bore. If I go to a concert and someone plays like that I have two choices: go home or go to sleep. The goal is to make the piano sing, sing, sing.

  

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• Whether to the average person, applying contemporary community standards, the dominant theme of the material taken as a whole appeals to prurient interest.

  

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• Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

  

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• The characteristic of the new birth is that I yield myself so completely to God that Christ is formed in me.

  

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• I wrote the feeling's new to me, in my sincerity.

  

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• My prayer is that God give me no longer life than I shall be glad to use mine office in edification, and not in destruction.

  

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• I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Sincerity
  • Characteristic
  • Heroic