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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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More quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
Thomas Carlyle
Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
Thomas Carlyle
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent.
Thomas Carlyle
There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.
Thomas Carlyle
Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.
Thomas Carlyle
Reform, like charity, must begin at home.
Thomas Carlyle
O thou who art able to write a book which once in the two centuries or oftener there is a man gifted to do, envy not him whom they name city-builder, and inexpressibly pity him whom they name conqueror or city-burner.
Thomas Carlyle
All work of man is as the swimmer's: a vast ocean threatens to devour him if he front it not bravely, it will keep its word.
Thomas Carlyle
What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay.
Thomas Carlyle
A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures.
Thomas Carlyle
The merit of originality is not novelty it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
Thomas Carlyle
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle
A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.
Thomas Carlyle
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
Thomas Carlyle
Parliament will train you to talk and above all things to hear, with patience, unlimited quantities of foolish talk.
Thomas Carlyle
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words supply and demand.
Thomas Carlyle
Love not Pleasure love God.
Thomas Carlyle
Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
Thomas Carlyle
Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
Thomas Carlyle
The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.
Thomas Carlyle
