Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Misery which, through long ages, had no spokesman, no helper, will now be its own helper and speak for itself.
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The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.
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If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect; there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.
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Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
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The highest ensign that men ever met and embraced under, the Cross itself, had no meaning save an accidental extrinsic one.
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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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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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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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All great peoples are conservative.
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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.
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
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Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.