Thomas Carlyle quotes - page 17

If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded. (Thomas Carlyle)
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere. View quote
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. View quote
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? View quote
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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 sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil. View quote
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In books lies the soul of the whole past time. View quote
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes. View quote
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. View quote
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All great peoples are conservative. View quote
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see. View quote
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. (Thomas Carlyle)
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. View quote
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether. View quote
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever. View quote
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Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. View quote
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment. View quote
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve. View quote
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. View quote
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was. View quote
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong. View quote
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The spiritual is the parent of the practical. (Thomas Carlyle)
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart. View quote
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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another. View quote
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation. View quote
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness. View quote
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