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First Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
- Every noble work is at first impossible.
- No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
- The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
- It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
- Let him who wants to move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
- History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what…
- No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work…
- 'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
- 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…
- No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first.
- The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The…
- A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases…
- Is there no God, then, but at best an absentee God, sitting idle, ever since the first Sabbath, at the outside of his Universe?
- I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity, is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.
- He who first shortened the labor of Copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating…
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