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Thomas Carlyle Inspirational Quotes (473)

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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
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How indestructibly the good grows, and propagates itself, even among the weedy entanglements of evil.
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Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?
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My books are friends that never fail me.
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In a different time, in a different place, it is always some other side of our common human nature that has been developing itself. The actual truth is the sum of all these.
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Battles, in these ages, are transacted by mechanism with the slightest possible development of human individuality or spontaneity men now even die, and kill one another, in an artificial manner.
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History is philosophy teaching by experience.
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A man lives by believing something.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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Wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses which he is loved and blessed by.
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He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
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In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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In the poorest cottage are Books: is one Book, wherein for several thousands of years the spirit of man has found light, and nourishment, and an interpreting response to whatever is Deepest in him.
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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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Youth is to all the glad season of life but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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The latest gospel in this world is, know thy work and do it.
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We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud electricity, and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?
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I came hither [Craigenputtoch] solely with the design to simplify my way of life and to secure the independence through which I could be enabled to remain true to myself.
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