Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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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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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
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The genuine essence of truth never dies.
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To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all; and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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All comes out even at the end of the day.
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The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Affectation is the product of falsehood.
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Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.
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There are remedies for all things but death.
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How, without clothes, could we possess the master organ, soul's seat and true pineal gland of the body social--I mean a purse?
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Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.
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Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.
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You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."
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The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened, all men can look into the stillness of eternity, and discern in glimpses their far-distant, long-forgotten home.
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A thinking man is the worst enemy the Prince of Darkness can have; every time such an one announces himself, I doubt not there runs a shudder through the nether empire; and new emissaries are trained with new tactics, to, if possible, entrap and hoodwink and handcuff him.
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To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface.
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.