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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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  • The heart always sees before than the head can see.
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  • The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
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  • The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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  • The king is the man who can.
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  • The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.
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  • The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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  • The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
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  • The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
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  • The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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  • The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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  • The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
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  • The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
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  • The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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  • The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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  • The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
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  • The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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  • The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
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  • The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
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  • The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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  • The whole past is the procession of the present.
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