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Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Thomas Carlyle -
Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Thomas Carlyle
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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
Thomas Carlyle -
It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Thomas Carlyle -
A very sea of thought; neither calm nor clear, if you will, yet wherein the toughest pearl-diver may dive to his utmost depth, and return not only with sea-wreck but with true orients.
Thomas Carlyle -
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
Thomas Carlyle -
Nothing ever happens but once in all this world. What I do now I do once for all. It is over and gone, with all its eternity of solemn meaning.
Thomas Carlyle -
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
Thomas Carlyle
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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
Thomas Carlyle -
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle -
When I gaze into the stars, they look down upon me with pity from their serene and silent spaces, like eyes glistening with tears over the little lot of man. Thousands of generations, all as noisy as our own, have been swallowed up by time, and there remains no record of them any more. Yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius and Pleiades, are still shining in their courses, clear and young, as when the shepherd first noted them in the plain of Shinar!
Thomas Carlyle -
The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
Thomas Carlyle -
Thou fool! Nature alone is antique, and the oldest art a mushroom; that idle crag thou sittest on is six thousand years of age.
Thomas Carlyle -
Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?
Thomas Carlyle
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Why did not somebody teach me the constellations, and make me at home in the starry heavens, which are always overhead, and which I don't half know to this day?
Thomas Carlyle -
The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.
Thomas Carlyle -
A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
Thomas Carlyle -
The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
Thomas Carlyle -
May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
Thomas Carlyle -
He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.
Thomas Carlyle
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
Thomas Carlyle -
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas Carlyle -
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
Thomas Carlyle -
Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
Thomas Carlyle