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A man's perfection is his work.
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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
Thomas Carlyle
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
Thomas Carlyle -
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
Thomas Carlyle -
All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!
Thomas Carlyle -
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Thomas Carlyle -
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas Carlyle -
In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
Thomas Carlyle
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle -
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlyle -
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
Thomas Carlyle -
He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.
Thomas Carlyle -
To be true is manly, chivalrous, Christian; to be false is mean, cowardly, devilish.
Thomas Carlyle -
We have chosen Mahomet not as the most eminent Prophet; but as the one we are freest to speak of. He is by no means the truest of Prophets; but I do esteem him a true one.
Thomas Carlyle
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A lie should be trampled on and extinguished wherever found. I am for fumigating the atmosphere when I suspect that falsehood, like pestilence, breathes around me.
Thomas Carlyle -
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Thomas Carlyle -
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
Thomas Carlyle -
A dandy is a clothes-wearing man--a man whose trade, office, and existence consist in the wearing of clothes. Every faculty of his soul, spirit, person and purse is heroically consecrated to this one object--the wearing of clothes, wisely and well; so that, as others dress to live, he lives to dress.
Thomas Carlyle -
For, strictly considered, what is all Knowledge too but recorded Experience, and a product of History; of which, therefore, Reasoning and Belief, no less than Action and Passion, are essential materials?
Thomas Carlyle -
Obedience is our universal duty and destiny; wherein whoso will not bend must break; too early and too thoroughly we cannot be trained to know that "would," in this world of ours, is a mere zero to "should," and for most part as the smallest of fractions even to "shall.
Thomas Carlyle
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Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.
Thomas Carlyle -
No pressure, no diamonds.
Thomas Carlyle -
The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
Thomas Carlyle -
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.
Thomas Carlyle