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Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
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A heavenly awe overshadowed and encompassed, as it still ought, and must, all earthly business whatsoever.
Thomas Carlyle
Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
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A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house!
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
A fair day's wage for a fair day's work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
Thomas Carlyle
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's intellect than we have yet seen. It is what I call an unconscious intellect there is more virtue in it that he himself is aware of.
Thomas Carlyle
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
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God Almighty never created a man half as wise as he looks.
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Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
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A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.
Thomas Carlyle
Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
Thomas Carlyle
A background of wrath, which can be stirred up to the murderous infernal pitch, does lie in every man.
Thomas Carlyle
Caution is the lower story of prudence.
Thomas Carlyle
By nature man hates change seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
Thomas Carlyle
Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.
Thomas Carlyle
