Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
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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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Rest is for the dead.
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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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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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Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?
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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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Custom doth make dotards of us all.
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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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A collection of books is the best of all universities.
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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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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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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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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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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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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.