Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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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  • Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.
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  • After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
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  • All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
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  • All great peoples are conservative.
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  • All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
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  • All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
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  • Be not a slave of words.
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  • Be not a slave of words.
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  • Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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  • By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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  • Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
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  • Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
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  • Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
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  • Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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  • Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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  • Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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  • Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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  • Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.
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  • Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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  • Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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