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Persons Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
- Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
- Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
- No person is important enough to make me angry.
- Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea…
- A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
- No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve.
- The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
- No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.
- The mystery of a person, indeed, is ever divine to him that has a sense for the godlike.
- The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
- Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
- 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…
- A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
- The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is already a treason and deception.
- Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
- A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on…
- 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…
- The person who cannot wonder is but a pair of spectacles behind which there is no eye.
- Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
- Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before…
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