Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes thereon.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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The infinite, absolute character of Virtue has passed into a finite, conditional one; it is no longer a worship of the Beautiful and Good; but a calculation of the Profitable.
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What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?
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An everlasting lodestar, that beams the brighter in the heavens the darker here on earth grows the night.
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A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to "get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted 'on him".
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He who takes not counsel of the Unseen and Silent, from him will never come real visibility and speech.
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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
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The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin.
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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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In this world there is one godlike thing, the essence of all that was or ever will be of godlike in this world: the veneration done to Human Worth by the hearts of men.
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There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.
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Blessed be the God's voice; for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
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For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
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A man's religion consists, not of the many things he is in doubt of and tries to believe, but of the few he is assured of and has no need of effort for believing.
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as things go: "A judicious man," says he, "looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him."
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
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Democracy will itself accomplish the salutary universal change from delusive to real, and make a new blessed world of us by and by.
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The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.