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Thomas Carlyle Inspirational Quotes (474)

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Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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What I loved in the man was his health, his unity with himself all people and all things seemed to find their quite peaceable adjustment with him, not a proud domineering one, as after doubtful contest, but a spontaneous-looking peaceable, even humble one.
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Lord Bacon could as easily have created the planets as he could have written Hamlet.
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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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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Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
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The meaning of song goes deep. Who in logical words can explain the effect music has on us? A kind of inarticulate, unfathomable speech, which leads us to the edge of the infinite, and lets us for a moment gaze into that!
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.
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The Builder of this Universe was wise, He plann'd all souls, all systems, planets, particles: The Plan He shap'd all Worlds and Æons by, Was-Heavens!-was thy small Nine-and-thirty Articles!
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
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Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!
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Courtesy is the due of man to man not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.
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The outer passes away the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither it is devilish.
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Rest is for the dead.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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A pygmy standing on the outward crust of this small planet, his far-reaching spirit stretches outward to the infinite, and there alone finds rest.
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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come.
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This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.
Thomas Carlyle
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