Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.
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A man's perfection is his work.
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Man makes circumstances, and spiritually as well as economically, is the artificer of his own fortune.
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
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If you are looking at data over and over you better be taking away valuable insight every time. If you are constantly looking at data that isn't leading to strategic action stop wasting your time and look for more Actionable Analytics.
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Man's Unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is even, as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.
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The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.
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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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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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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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How great a Possibility, how small a realized Result.
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I call that Book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
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Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
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He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.