Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle: After all manner...

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...

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Thomas Carlyle: A terrible, beetle-browed,...

Thomas Carlyle: A terrible, beetle-browed,...

A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn individual; with a pair of...

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Thomas Carlyle: A person usually...

Thomas Carlyle: A person usually...

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.

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Thomas Carlyle: A man perfects...

Thomas Carlyle: A man perfects...

A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities;...

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Thomas Carlyle: A healthy hatred...

Thomas Carlyle: A healthy hatred...

A healthy hatred of scoundrels.

Source: (Political Economy) Latter Day Pamphlets,...

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Thomas Carlyle: All great peoples...

Thomas Carlyle: All great peoples...

All great peoples are conservative.

Source: In The Ultimate Success Quotations...

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Thomas Carlyle: Action hangs, as...

Thomas Carlyle: Action hangs, as...

Action hangs, as it were, dissolved in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself...

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Thomas Carlyle: A person who...

Thomas Carlyle: A person who...

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

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Thomas Carlyle: A person with...

Thomas Carlyle: A person with...

A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of...

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Thomas Carlyle: Adversity is sometimes...

Thomas Carlyle: 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...

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Thomas Carlyle: Be not the...

Thomas Carlyle: Be not the...

Be not the slave of Words.

Source: Sartor Resartus, Bk I, Ch. 8
-- Thomas...

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Thomas Carlyle: All evil is...

Thomas Carlyle: All evil is...

All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

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Thomas Carlyle: All reform except...

Thomas Carlyle: All reform except...

All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.

Source: Critical and...

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Thomas Carlyle: A well-written life...

Thomas Carlyle: A well-written life...

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Source: Critical and...

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Thomas Carlyle: Cash-payment never was,...

Thomas Carlyle: 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...

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Thomas Carlyle: Burke said that...

Thomas Carlyle: Burke said that...

Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth...

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Thomas Carlyle: Clever men are...

Thomas Carlyle: Clever men are...

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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Thomas Carlyle: Blessed is he...

Thomas Carlyle: Blessed is he...

Blessed is he who has found his work. Let him ask no other blessedness.

Source:...

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Thomas Carlyle: A witty statesman...

Thomas Carlyle: A witty statesman...

A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.

Source: Critical and...

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Thomas Carlyle: Egotism is the...

Thomas Carlyle: Egotism is the...

Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

Source: In The...

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