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One Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
- A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
- I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while,…
- One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
- Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
- Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
- One monster there is in the world, the idle man.
- One of the Godlike things of this world is the veneration done to human worth by the hearts of men.
- Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his…
- These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of…
- If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?
- A stammering man is never a worthless one. Physiology can tell you why. It is an excess of sensibility to the presence of his fellow…
- Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest.
- It is meritorious to insist on forms; religion and all else naturally clothes itself in forms. Everywhere the formed world is the only habitable one.
- Statistics, one may hope, will improve gradually, and become good for something. Meanwhile, it is to be feared the crabbed satirist was partly right, as…
- Rich as we are in biography, a well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one; and there are certainly many more men whose…
- Tobacco smoke is the one element in which, by our European manners, men can sit silent together without embarrassment, and where no man is bound…
- The universe is but one vast Symbol of God.
- Social Science, is not a 'gay science' but rueful, which finds the secret of this universe in 'supply and demand' and reduces the duty of…
- Clean undeniable right, clear undeniable might: either of these once ascertained puts an end to battle. All battle is a confused experiment to ascertain one…
- Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by…
- One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
- Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician…
- Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
- Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
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