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Only Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil…
- Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.
- Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
- The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
- 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…
- 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…
- Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
- Dishonesty is the raw material not of quacks only, but also in great part dupes.
- 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.
- Biography is the only true history.
- O thou that pinest in the imprisonment of the Actual, and criest bitterly to the gods for a kingdom wherein to rule and create, know…
- The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
- 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…
- That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but…
- Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for…
- Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.
- Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.
- Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed,…
- Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul.
- He that has a secret to hide should not only hide it but hide that he has to hide it.
- It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
- Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
- Except by name, Jean Paul Friedrich Richter is little known out of Germany. The only thing connected with him, we think, that has reached this…
- Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever?
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