Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that Cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings.
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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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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under; learn from it, turn it to account.
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Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one and both of these.
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We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud "electricity," and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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The mathematics of high achievement.
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Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
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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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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
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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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Science has done much for us; but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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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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Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
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There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.