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| QUOTE COLLECTIONS OF Thomas Carlyle |
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Quotes By author - Starting with T - Thomas Carlyle
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There are 154 quotes for the author Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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Arrogance   
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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
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Silence   
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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Education   
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Work   
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!
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Surely of all the 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.
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All great peoples are conservative.
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
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War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
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A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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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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