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Own Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
- No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
- 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…
- My whinstone house my castle is, I have my own four walls.
- But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of…
- The suffering man ought really to consume his own smoke; there is no good in emitting smoke till you have made it into fire.
- No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own…
- Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
- 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…
- Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve. Hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
- We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our…
- Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
- War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick…
- The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.
- The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was capable of being; expand, if possible to his full growth; resisting all…
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