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A man perfects himself by working.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Philosopher of Chelsea
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More quotes by Thomas Carlyle
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Thomas Carlyle
Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
Thomas Carlyle
The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.
Thomas Carlyle
The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
Thomas Carlyle
A word spoken in season, at the right moment is the mother of ages.
Thomas Carlyle
Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
Thomas Carlyle
Roguery is thought by some to be cunning and laughable: it is neither it is devilish.
Thomas Carlyle
Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as death, are there, and thou shalt not disobey them.
Thomas Carlyle
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
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To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.
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History is the new poetry.
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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas Carlyle
Infinite is the help man can yield to man.
Thomas Carlyle
The leafy blossoming present time springs from the whole past, remembered and unrememberable.
Thomas Carlyle
A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
Thomas Carlyle
See deep enough, and you see musically.
Thomas Carlyle
The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.
Thomas Carlyle
