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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  • In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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  • In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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  • In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
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  • Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
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  • It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
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  • It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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  • It is not a lucky word, this name ''impossible''; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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  • It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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  • It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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  • It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.
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  • Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
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  • Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
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  • Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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  • Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
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  • Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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  • Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
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  • Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
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  • Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
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  • Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
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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.
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