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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Neither had Watt of the Steam engine a heroic origin, any kindred with the princes of this world. The princes of this world were shooting their partridges... While this man with blackened fingers, with grim brow, was searching out, in his workshop, the Fire-secret.
Thomas Carlyle
No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
Thomas Carlyle
What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
Speech that leads not to action, still more that hinders it, is a nuisance on the earth.
Thomas Carlyle
Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!
Thomas Carlyle
Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
Thomas Carlyle
The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Thomas Carlyle
No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
Thomas Carlyle
The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
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Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.
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The fine arts once divorcing themselves from truth are quite certain to fall mad, if they do not die.
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A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
Thomas Carlyle
Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.
Thomas Carlyle
Professors of the Dismal Science, I perceive the length of your tether is now pretty well run and I must request you to talk a little lower in the future.
Thomas Carlyle
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
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Wonderful Force of Public Opinion! We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of influence it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?
Thomas Carlyle
The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows. The greatest of faults, I should say is to be conscious of none.
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
The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.
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