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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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Shakespeare says, we are creatures that look before and after the more surprising that we do not look around a little, and see what is passing under our very eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
It is no very good symptom, either of nations or individuals, that they deal much in vaticination. Happy men are full of the present, for its bounty suffices them and wise men also, for its duties engage them. Our grand business undoubtedly is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the daylight of Life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair.
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
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A man ought to inquire and find out what he really and truly has an appetite for what suits his constitution and that, doctors tell him, is the very thing he ought to have in general. And so with books.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Scarcely two hundred years back can Fame recollect articulately at all and there she but maunders and mumbles.
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As there is no danger of our becoming, any of us, Mahometans (i.e. Muslim), I mean to say all the good of him I justly can.
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What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin whereby being often cheated, she will thenceforth trust nothing but the common copper.
Thomas Carlyle
Eternity looks grander and kinder if time grow meaner and more hostile.
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Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating and things will destroy themselves.
Thomas Carlyle
No person is important enough to make me angry.
Thomas Carlyle
