Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness on the confines of two everlasting empires, - Necessity and Free Will.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
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All great peoples are conservative.
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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
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Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of a man; like light, it can give little or nothing, but at most may show what is given.
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A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow creature, that makes him stammer.
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
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Variety is the condition of harmony.
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Creation is great, and cannot be understood.
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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man.
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Lies exist only to be extinguished.
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Fancy that thou deservest to be hangedthou wilt feel it happiness to be only shot: fancy that thou deservest to be hanged ina hair halter, it will be a luxury to die in hemp.
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No man is born without ambitious worldly desires.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
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Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.