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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
Thomas Carlyle
The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
Thomas Carlyle
Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
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
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
Thomas Carlyle
There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
Thomas Carlyle
In every object there is inexhaustible meaning the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
Thomas Carlyle
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas Carlyle
And yet without labour there were no ease, no rest, so much as conceivable.
Thomas Carlyle
A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Thomas Carlyle
Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
Thomas Carlyle
Terror itself, when once grown transcendental, becomes a kind of courage as frost sufficiently intense, according to the poet Milton, will burn.
Thomas Carlyle
Money, in truth, can do much, but it cannot do all. We must know the province of it, and confine it there, and even spurn it back when it wishes to get farther.
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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.
Thomas Carlyle
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
Thomas Carlyle
The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.
Thomas Carlyle
The authentic insight and experience of any human soul, were it but insight and experience in hewing of wood and drawing of water, is real knowledge, a real possession and acquirement.
Thomas Carlyle
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
Thomas Carlyle
Affectation is the product of falsehood.
Thomas Carlyle
