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42 Thomas Carlyle Quotes & Sayings
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42 Thomas Carlyle Quotes & Sayings
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Born: 4 December 1795. Died: 5 February 1881 |
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.
Thomas Carlyle
See
Able
Further
Far
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Ask
Blessed
Found
He
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Altogether
Bad
Laughed
Man
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle
Less
Men
Ought
Than
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Honest
Honest Man
Less
Make
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle
Became
Block
Granite
Obstacle
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
Conscious
Faults
Greatest
None
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
Business
Clearly
Distance
Hand
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle
Attains
Escapes
Glad
Hopes
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
Blessing
Consists
Felicity
Fortune
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Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
Thomas Carlyle
Based
He
His
Hope
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Everything
He
Health
Hope
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Been
Finest
Genius
Humor
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle
Being
Confined
Human
Human Species
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Thomas Carlyle
Advance
Affairs
Could
Days
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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Done
Flowing
Good
Good Man
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Ability
Amount
Avail
Honor
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Angry
Enough
Important
Make
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
Thomas Carlyle
Bad
Bad Times
Changes
Fortune
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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Ambition
Boredom
Die
Exhaustion
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle
Adversity
Diamond
Dust
Heaven
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None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas Carlyle
Accomplish
Alone
Anything
Commanding
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
Accomplishment
Builds
Like
Nothing
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle
Accomplishment
Achieve
Achievement
Course
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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
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Constantly
Originality
Quarrel
Thing
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
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Element
Fashion
Great
Silence
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle
Believe
Collective
Ignorance
Individual
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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle
Against
Anything
Deliberately
Deserve
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All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
Books
Done
Lying
Magic
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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Activity
Insight
Nothing
Terrible
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Angels
Music
Said
Speech
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Merit
Novelty
Originality
Sincerity
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas Carlyle
Honor
Kind
Know
Man
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Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
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Acts
Conscious
Divine
Faults
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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Acorn
Breeze
Echoes
Fall
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Demand
Economist
Got
Parrot
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Books
Lies
Past
PastTime
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Am
Bigger
Deal
Great
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
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Action
Alone
Doubt
Ended
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Beginning
Heart
Knowledge
Loving
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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Biography
Great
Great Man
Great Men
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
After
Become
Books
Collection
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes & Sayings