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Funny Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
- No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.
- All great peoples are conservative.
- Be not a slave of words.
- Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
- No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
- The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.
- Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
- Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
- The actual well seen is ideal.
- Biography is the only true history.
- A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.
- The devil has his elect.
- Society is founded upon Cloth;
- Know what thou canst work at, and work at it like a Hercules.
- The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
- Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
- The Orator persuades and carries all with him, he knows not how; the Rhetorician can prove that he ought to have persuaded and carried all…
- We have not the love of greatness, but the love of the love of greatness.
- In every object there is inexhaustible meaning.
- What is all knowledge except recorded experience, and a product of history?
- History is the new poetry.
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