Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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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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At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.
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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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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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Philosophy dwells aloft in the Temple of Science, the divinity of its inmost shrine; her dictates descend among men, but she herself descends not : whoso would behold her must climb with long and laborious effort, nay, still linger in the forecourt, till manifold trial have proved him worthy of admission into the interior solemnities.
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The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?
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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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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
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Prayer is and remains always a native and deepest impulse of the soul of man.
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same time, it were but blindness to deny that this superior morality is properly rather an inferior criminality, produced not by greater love of Virtue, but by greater perfection of Police; and of that far subtler and stronger Police, called Public Opinion.
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How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
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The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.