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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  • Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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  • Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
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  • Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
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  • Every noble work is at first impossible.
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  • Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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  • Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.
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  • Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.
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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.
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  • For man is not the creature and product of Mechanism; but, in a far truer sense, its creator and producer.
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  • For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.
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  • France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
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  • Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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  • Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
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  • Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
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  • Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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  • Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books
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  • He that can work is born to be king of something.
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  • He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
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  • He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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  • Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
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