Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.
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Parliament will train you to talk; and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
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Coining "Dismal Science" as a nickname for Political Economy.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Wealth has more and more increased, and at the same time gathered itself more and more into masses, strangely altering the old relations, and increasing the distance between the rich and the poor.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work, a Life-purpose... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is... Even in the meanest sorts of Labour, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work!
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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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There is no heroic poem in the world but is at bottom a biography, the life of a man.
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
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Poetry is the attempt which man makes to render his existence harmonious.
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Out of the lowest depths there is a path to the loftiest heights.
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All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
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Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.
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Nature admits no lie.