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Mean Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- 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 Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
- Force, force, everywhere force; we ourselves a mysterious force in the centre of that. "There is not a leaf rotting on the highway but has…
- 'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
- No man at bottom means injustice; it is always for some obscure distorted image of a right that he contends: an obscure image diffracted, exaggerated,…
- To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.
- Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt.
- In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.
- Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
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