Thomas Carlyle quotes - page 16

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. (Thomas Carlyle)
Worship is transcendent wonder. View quote
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. View quote
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. View quote
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid. View quote
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Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is. View quote
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale. View quote
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. View quote
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. View quote
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write. View quote
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. (Thomas Carlyle)
No person is important enough to make me angry. View quote
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. View quote
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. View quote
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. View quote
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against. View quote
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No violent extreme endures. View quote
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries. View quote
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes. View quote
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. View quote
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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor. (Thomas Carlyle)
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. View quote
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. View quote
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious. View quote
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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. View quote
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