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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  • Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
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  • Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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  • Nothing so lifts a man from all his mean imprisonments, were it but for moments, as true admiration.
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  • Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
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  • Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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  • Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
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  • One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
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  • One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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  • Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
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  • Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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  • Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.
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  • Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
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  • Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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  • Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.
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  • Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.
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  • Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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  • Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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  • Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!
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  • Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
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  • Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
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