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Thomas Carlyle
After all manner...
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true...
A terrible, beetle-browed,...
A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn individual; with a pair of...
A person usually...
A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
A man perfects...
A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities;...
A healthy hatred...
A healthy hatred of scoundrels.
Source: (Political Economy) Latter Day Pamphlets,...
All great peoples...
All great peoples are conservative.
Source: In
Action hangs, as...
Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself...
A person who...
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
A person with...
A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of...
Adversity is sometimes...
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand...
Be not the...
Be not the slave of Words.
Source: Sartor Resartus, Bk I, Ch. 8
-- Thomas...
All evil is...
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
All reform except...
All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
Source: Critical and...
A well-written life...
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Source: Critical and...
Cash-payment never was,...
Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man...
Burke said that...
Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth...
Clever men are...
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Source: In Webster's Electronic...
Blessed is he...
Blessed is he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessedness.
Source:...
A witty statesman...
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Source: Critical and...
Egotism is the...
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Source: In