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Thomas Carlyle Quotes(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/Thomas_Carlyle_lm.jpg/220px-Thomas_Carlyle_lm.jpg)
A Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era. Thomas Carlyle (4 December 1795 – 5 February 1881) was a Scottish satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher during the Victorian era. He called economics "the dismal science", wrote articles for the Edinburgh Encyclopedia, and became a controversial social commentator.
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Work alone is noble.
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Debt is a bottomless sea.
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The end of man is action.
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No pressure, no diamonds.
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Man is a tool-using animal.
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History a distillation of rumor
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Wonder is the basis of worship.
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Biography is the only true history.
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Give me a man who sings at his work.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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He that can work is a born king of something.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Poetry therefore we will call Musical Thought.
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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All reform except a moral one will prove unavailing.
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Silence is deep as Eternity; speech shallow as Time.
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Acorns are planted silently by some unnoticed breeze.
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The present is the living sum-total of the whole past.
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
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It is the heart always that sees before the head can see.
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One life - a little gleam of Time between two Eternities.
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The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.
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Love is ever the beginning of Knowledge as fire is of light.
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Faith is loyalty to some inspired teacher some spiritual hero.
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Skepticism means not intellectual doubt alone but moral doubt.
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The greatest of faults I should say is to be conscious of none.
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Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.
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All work is seed sown. It grows and spreads and sows itself anew.
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more and theory less and less.
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We arc the miracle of miracles the great inscrutable mystery of God.
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Every noble crown is, and on Earth will forever be, a crown of thorns.
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Experience is the best of schoolmasters only the school-fees are heavy.
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Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer but rather what they miss.
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Love is not altogether a delirium yet it has many points in common therewith.
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His religion at best is an anxious wish - like that of Rebelais a great Perhaps.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Hero-worship exists has existed and will forever exist universally among mankind.
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Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?
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The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
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Of a truth men are mystically united: a mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently but to live manfully.
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No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
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If you can walk you can dance. Zimbabwe saying Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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The three great elements of modern civilization Gunpowder Printing and the Protestant Religion.
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In the long run every government is the exact symbol of its people with their wisdom and unwisdom.
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A fair day's wages for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of government.
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Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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When the oak is felled the forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown silently by an unnoticed breeze.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.
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All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him; if he front it not bravely it will keep its word.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man but for one man who can stand prosperity there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
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The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons strategems and spoils but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.
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Burke said there were three Estates in Parliament; but in the reporters' gallery yonder there sat a fourth Estate more important than them all.
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Time is the silent never-resting thing ... rolling rushing on swift silent like an all-embracing oceantide on which we and all the universe swim.
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but in the Reporters' gallery yonder there sat a Fourth Estate more important far than they all.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say and make fun of him.
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Today is not yesterday; how can our works and thoughts if they are always to be the fittest continue always the same? Change indeed is painful yet ever needful.
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Innumerable are the illusions and legerdemain tricks of custom: but of all these perhaps the cleverest is her knack of persuading us that the miraculous by simple repetition ceases to be miraculous.
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Who is there that in logical words can express the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate unfathomable speech which leads us to the edge of the Infinite and lets us for moments gaze into that!
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Of all paths a man could strike into there is at any given moment a best path which here and now it were of all things wisest for him to do. To find this path and walk in it is the one thing needful for him.
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... 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.