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Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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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?
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We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
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In a certain sense all men are historians.
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
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Earnestness alone makes life eternity.
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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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Blessed be the God's voice for it is true, and falsehoods have to cease before it!
Thomas Carlyle
The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Thomas Carlyle
The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all with him.
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By nature man hates change seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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The end of Man is an Action, and not a Thought, though it were the noblest?
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world the world's Priest -- guiding it, like a sacred Pillar of Fire, in its dark pilgrimage through the waste of Time.
Thomas Carlyle
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?
Thomas Carlyle
I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
Thomas Carlyle
Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle
