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The true eye for talent presupposes the true reverence for it.
Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle
Age: 85 †
Born: 1795
Born: December 4
Died: 1881
Died: February 5
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The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!
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A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
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A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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It is through symbols that man consciously or unconsciously lives, works and has his being.
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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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The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor.
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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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With union grounded on falsehood and ordering us to speak and act lies, we will not have anything to do. Peace? A brutal lethargy is peaceable the noisome is peaceable. We hope for a living peace, not a dead one!
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.
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Let one who wants to move and convince others, first be convinced and moved themselves. If a person speaks with genuine earnestness the thoughts, the emotion and the actual condition of their own heart, others will listen because we all are knit together by the tie of sympathy.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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A man perfects himself by working.
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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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Nature, after all, is still the grand agent in making poets.
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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
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We call that fire of the black thunder-cloud electricity, and lecture learnedly about it, and grind the like of it out of glass and silk: but what is it? What made it? Whence comes it? Whither goes it?
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