Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Time has only a relative existence.
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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.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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Might and right do differ frightfully from hour to hour, but then centuries to try it in, they are found to be identical.
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Every poet, be his outward lot what it may, finds himself born in the midst of prose; h e has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
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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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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
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Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.
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Superstition! that horrid incubus which dwelt in darkness, shunning the light, with all its racks, and poison chalices, and foul sleeping draughts, is passing away without return. Religion cannot pass away. The burning of a little straw may hide the stars of the sky; but the stars are there and will reappear.
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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.
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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With stupidity and sound digestion, man may front much.
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Worship is transcendent wonder.
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.
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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.