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Thomas Carlyle Inspirational Quotes (474)

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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
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The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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The great soul of this world is just.
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Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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Love is ever the beginning of knowledge as fire is of light.
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A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
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The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy and unmanageable environment that lay round them.
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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
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Are not our greatest men as good as lost? The men that walk daily among us, warming us, feeding us, walk shrouded in darkness, mere mythic men.
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All evil is like a nightmare the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
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Good Christian people, here lies for you an inestimable loan take all heed thereof, in all carefulness, employ it: with high recompense, or else with heavy penalty, will it one day be required back.
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It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
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