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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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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.
Thomas Carlyle
Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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
It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
Thomas Carlyle
Perfect ignorance is quiet, perfect knowledge is quiet not so the transition from the former to the latter.
Thomas Carlyle
Great is wisdom infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated it is the highest achievement of man.
Thomas Carlyle
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.
Thomas Carlyle
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Thomas Carlyle
Pain was not given thee merely to be miserable under learn from it, turn it to account.
Thomas Carlyle
The English are a dumb people. They can do great acts, but not describe them.
Thomas Carlyle
All evil is like a nightmare the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.
Thomas Carlyle
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
Thomas Carlyle
The Christian must be consumed by the conviction of the infinite beauty of holiness and the infinite damnability of sin.
Thomas Carlyle
The Persians are called the French of the East we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.
Thomas Carlyle
Let a man try faithfully, manfully to be right he will grow daily more and more right. It is at bottom the condition on which all men have to cultivate themselves.
Thomas Carlyle
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 cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas Carlyle
Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
Thomas Carlyle
Statistics is a science which ought to be honourable, the basis of many most important sciences but it is not to be carried on by steam, this science, any more than others are a wise head is requisite for carrying it on.
Thomas Carlyle
