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Inspirational Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

95 Inspirational quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle writes that his books are friends that never fail him. He says that true greatness often hides inside us, and that variety helps things work together. He also points out that a simple proverb can carry more spiritual power than a whole philosophy.

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Rest is for the dead.

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All comes out even at the end of the day.

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The actual well seen is ideal.

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History is a great dust heap.

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A man perfects himself by working.

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The devil has his elect.

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History: A distillation of rumor.

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The age of miracles is forever here.

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There is precious instruction to be got by finding we were wrong.

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The greatest security against sin is to be shocked at its presence.

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He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time.

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All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

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Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable.

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Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.

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Properly speaking, all true work is religion.

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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do…

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We have not read an author till we have seen his object, whatever it may be, as he saw it.

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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.

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He that has a secret to hide should not only hide it but hide that he has to hide it.

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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows.

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Nature is the time-vesture of God that reveals Him to the wise, and hides him from the foolish.

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We are not altogether here to tolerate. We are here to resist, to control and vanquish withal.

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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule…

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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes…

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“A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of delicacy, excess of sensibility…

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“History of the world is the biography of the great man. And I said: The great man always act like a thunder.…

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Fame is no sure test of merit.

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The archenemy is the arch stupid!

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Speech is great, but silence is greater.

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Song is the heroics of speech.

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Variety is the condition of harmony.

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History is the distillation of rumour.

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Nature admits no lie.

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History is the new poetry.

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Violence does even justice unjustly.

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Society is founded on hero-worship.

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My books are friends that never fail me.

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A man's perfection is his work.

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O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create,…

Whose school-hours are all the days and nights of our existence.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property, of…

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

Be a pattern to others, and then all will go well; for as a whole city is affected by the licentious passions and vices…

The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession;…

All human things do require to have an ideal in them; to have some soul in them.

Insurrection, never so necessary, is a most sad necessity; and governors who wait for that to instruct them are surely getting into the fatalest…

What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom?

Let Time and Chance combine, combine! Let Time and Chance combine! The fairest love from heaven above, That love of yours was mine, My…

Thought will not work except in silence.

The public is anold woman.Let her maunderand mumble.

Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?

The press is the fourth estate of the realm.