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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Pin thy faith to no man’s sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own? (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history? (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Teaching school is but another word for sure and not very slow destruction (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit strange victims (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
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 (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
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 (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
There is no permanent place in this universe for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Money will buy money’s worth; but the thing men call fame, what is it? (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path.. A thing 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 (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
There is so much data available to us, but most data won’t help us succeed (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking? (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
The eye of the intellect sees in all objects what it brought with it the means of seeing (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)