Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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Debt is a bottomless sea.
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We remove mountains, and make seas our smooth highway; nothing can resist us. We war with rude Nature; and, by our resistless engines, come off always victorious, and loaded with spoils.
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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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Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
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Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
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Histories are as perfect as the Historian is wise, and is gifted with an eye and a soul.
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The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
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The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.
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The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
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As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
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The Great Man's sincerity is of the kind he cannot speak of, is not conscious of: nay, I suppose, he is conscious rather of insincerity; for what man can walk accurately by the law of truth for one day? No, the Great Man does not boast himself sincere, far from that; perhaps does not ask himself if he is so: I would say rather, his sincerity does not depend on himself; he cannot help being sincere!
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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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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin; whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.