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All Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
- Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul…
- 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 all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.
- Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.
- Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
- For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
- No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
- All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
- Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
- The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
- Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
- All great peoples are conservative.
- Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
- The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
- Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
- 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.
- Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own…
- Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot…
- To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a…
- It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible;…
- The Bible is the truest utterance that ever came by alphabetic letters from the soul of man, through which, as through a window divinely opened,…
- It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
- 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…
- If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.
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