Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.
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Lies exist only to be extinguished.
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Variety is the condition of harmony.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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We arc the miracle of miracles, the great inscrutable mystery of God.
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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man.
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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Man is, and was always, a block-head and dullard; much readier to feel and digest, than to think and consider.
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No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
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Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices of great men, so it is likewise reformed by their moderation.
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Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
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The Ideal is in thyself, the impediments too is in thyself.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.
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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
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"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."
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Man, it is not thy works, which are mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least, but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.
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All great peoples are conservative.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.