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Thomas Carlyle
So much of...
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism...
Scepticism, as I...
Scepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A...
The Universe is...
The Universe is but one vast symbol of God.
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-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4...
The dust of...
The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
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Perseverance is patience...
Perseverance is patience concentrated.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...
Speech is human,...
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both...
Science must have...
Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
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The actual well...
The actual well seen is ideal.
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The eternal stars...
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
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Popular opinion is...
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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That monstrous tuberosity...
That monstrous tuberosity of civilised life, the capital of England.
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Secrecy is the...
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
The age of...
The age of miracles is forever here!
Source: 'The Hero as Priest' [But see...
The everlasting No....
The everlasting No.
Source: Sartor Resartus, Bk ii. Ch. 7, title
-- Thomas...
Ridicule is the...
Ridicule is the language of the devil.
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-- Thomas Carlyle, (Dec 4...
The courage we...
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Self-contemplation is infallibly...
Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.
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The best effect...
The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
The first of...
The first of all gospels is, that no lie lives forever.
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Sarcasm I now...
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as...