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Thomas Carlyle
I have seen...
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher...
In a controversy...
In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for...
I call the...
I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the...
Make yourself an...
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the...
Heroism is the...
Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
I lead a...
I lead a most dyspeptic, solitary, self-shrouded life: consuming, if possible in silence, my considerable daily...
Instead of saying...
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the...
I grow daily...
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing --a...
Men are to...
Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen...
I don't pretend...
I don't pretend to understand the Universe- it's a great deal bigger than I am . . . People ought to be...
I never heard...
I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
Source:...
Isolation is the...
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Source: In
If a book...
If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account...
Men do less...
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
Source: In Webster's...
If Jesus Christ...
If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people wouldn't even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he...
If time is...
If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at...
It is not...
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their...
If an eloquent...
If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in...
Narrative is linear,...
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
If a man...
If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
Source: In...