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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?
Thomas Carlyle
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Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
Thomas Carlyle -
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.
Thomas Carlyle -
Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle -
We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle -
Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
Thomas Carlyle -
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
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There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
Thomas Carlyle -
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Thomas Carlyle -
Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
Thomas Carlyle -
Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.
Thomas Carlyle -
One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
Thomas Carlyle -
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle
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He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
Thomas Carlyle -
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
Thomas Carlyle -
The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
Thomas Carlyle -
Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
Thomas Carlyle -
Who is there that, in logical words, can express the effect music has on us?
Thomas Carlyle -
The greatest of all heroes is One--whom we do not name here! Let sacred silence meditate that sacred matter; you will find it the ultimate perfection of a principle extant throughout man's whole history on earth.
Thomas Carlyle
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The choking, sweltering, deadly, and killing rule of no rule; the consecration of cupidity and braying of folly, and dim stupidity and baseness, in most of the affairs of men. Slopshirts attainable three-halfpence cheaper by the ruin of living bodies and immortal souls.
Thomas Carlyle -
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Thomas Carlyle -
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.
Thomas Carlyle -
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Thomas Carlyle