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Thomas Carlyle Inspirational Quotes (474)

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The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
Thomas Carlyle
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Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.
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Learn to be good readers, which is perhaps a more difficult thing than you imagine. Learn to be discriminative in your reading to read faithfully, and with your best attention, all kinds of things which you have a real interest in,--a real, not an imaginary,--and which you find to be really fit for what you are engaged in.
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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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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
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Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.
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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world the world's Priest -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
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He that can work is born to be king of something.
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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The true epic of our times is not Arm's and the Man, but Tools and the Man--an infinitely wider kind of epic.
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A noble book! all men's book!
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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
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In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by Silence and by Speech acting together, comes a double significance.
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Habit is the deepest law of human nature
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Science has done much for us but it is a poor science that would hide from us the great deep sacred infinitude of Nescience, on which all science swims as a mere superficial film.
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I want to meet my God awake.
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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 theyself till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.
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The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
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Wise man was he who counselled that speculation should have free course, and look fearlessly towards all the thirty-two points of the compass, whithersoever and howsoever it listed.
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