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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after; the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
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The age of miracles is forever here.
Thomas Carlyle -
Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.
Thomas Carlyle -
Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
Thomas Carlyle -
Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
Thomas Carlyle -
Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
Thomas Carlyle -
Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.
Thomas Carlyle
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
Thomas Carlyle -
To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
Thomas Carlyle -
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
Thomas Carlyle -
Look to be treated by others as you have treated others.
Thomas Carlyle -
In books lies the soul fo the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle
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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.
Thomas Carlyle -
High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge will come to lodge.
Thomas Carlyle -
By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
Thomas Carlyle -
Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher, some spiritual hero.
Thomas Carlyle -
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
Thomas Carlyle -
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Thomas Carlyle
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Thomas Carlyle -
To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.
Thomas Carlyle -
The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
Thomas Carlyle -
The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
Thomas Carlyle