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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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More quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle
The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Thomas Carlyle
So much of truth, only under an ancient obsolete vesture, but the spirit of it still true, do I find in the Paganism of old nations. Nature is still divine, the revelation of the workings of God the Hero is still worshipable: this, under poor cramped incipient forms, is what all Pagan religions have struggled, as they could, to set forth.
Thomas Carlyle
Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
Thomas Carlyle
The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
Thomas Carlyle
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.
Thomas Carlyle
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
Thomas Carlyle
The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.
Thomas Carlyle
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
Thomas Carlyle
Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.
Thomas Carlyle
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle
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!
Thomas Carlyle
The age of miracles is forever here.
Thomas Carlyle
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.
Thomas Carlyle
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
Thomas Carlyle
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
Thomas Carlyle
No man at bottom means injustice it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated, in the wonderfulest way by natural dimness and selfishness getting tenfold more diffracted by exasperation of contest, till at length it become all but irrecognis-able.
Thomas Carlyle
Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.
Thomas Carlyle
History is the distillation of rumour.
Thomas Carlyle
Society is founded on hero-worship.
Thomas Carlyle
