Thomas Carlyle quotes - page 2

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. (Thomas Carlyle)
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct. View quote
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels. View quote
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Silence is more eloquent than words. View quote
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Every noble work is at first impossible. quoted by Og Mandino. View quote
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Wonder is the basis of worship. View quote
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best. View quote
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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. View quote
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. View quote
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. View quote
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite. (Thomas Carlyle)
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. View quote
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. View quote
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. View quote
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Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee Thy second duty will already have become clearer. View quote
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. View quote
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The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past. View quote
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Metaphysics is the attempt of the mind to rise above the mind. View quote
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books. View quote
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. View quote
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There is no act more moral between men than that of rule And obedience. (Thomas Carlyle)
For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, As fire is of light. View quote
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully. View quote
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. View quote
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Be not a slave of words. View quote
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Thomas Carlyle

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Occupation: Scottish Essayist
Born: December 4, 1795
Died: February 5, 1881
Quotes count: 732
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