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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
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Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.
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Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one and there are certainly many more men whose history deserves to be recorded than persons willing and able to record it.
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Force, force, everywhere force we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has Force in it: how else could it rot? [As used in his time, by the word force, Carlyle means energy.]
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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Caution is the lower story of prudence.
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A man must indeed be a hero to appear such in the eyes of his valet.
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The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
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A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to suppose that it was a miserable piece of spiritual legerdemain, this which so many creatures of the almighty have lived by and died by?
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
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Leaders: Captains of industry.
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The great silent man! Looking round on the noisy inanity of the world,--words with little meaning, actions with little worth,--one loves to reflect on the great Empire of Silence.
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I call that [Book of Job], apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with pen.
Thomas Carlyle
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Enjoying things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
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Hero-worship exists, has existed, and will forever exist, universally, among mankind.
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All history . . . is an inarticulate Bible.
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