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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

Scottish writer and historicus

Lived from: 1795 - 1881

Category: History and sociology | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 4 december 1795 Died: 5 february 1881

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  • A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
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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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  • Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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  • I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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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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  • In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
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  • The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
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  • There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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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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  • A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
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  • A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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  • A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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  • A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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  • A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
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  • A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
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  • A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one
    Source: Goethe's Works (1832)
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  • A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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  • A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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  • A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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  • A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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