Thomas Carlyle quotes - page 3

Let each become all that he was created capable of being. (Thomas Carlyle)
Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
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That there should one man die ignorant who had capacity for knowledge, this I call a tragedy.
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
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Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
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A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. (Thomas Carlyle)
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
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Even in the meanest sorts of Labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
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France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.
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All work is as seed sown it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.
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Close thy Byron open thy Goethe.
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He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. (Thomas Carlyle)
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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The age of miracles is forever here.
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The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.
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Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this country is his saying,imported by Madame de Stal, and thankfully pocketed by most newspaper critics,'Providence has given to the French the empire of the land to the English that of the sea to the Germans that ofthe air' Richter German humorist prose writer.
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