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Them Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
- Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.
- Contented saturnine human figures, a dozen or so of them, sitting around a large long table...Perfect equality is to be the rule; no rising or…
- Laws, written, if not on stone tables, yet on the azure of infinitude, in the inner heart of God's creation, certain as life, certain as…
- Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of…
- Look around you. Your world-hosts are all in mutiny, in confusion, destitution; on the eve of fiery wreck and madness! They will not march farther…
- Does it ever give thee pause that men used to have a soul? Not by hearsay alone, or as a figure of speech, but as…
- If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... Sweet Friend, for Jesus…
- Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it…
- Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any…
- Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question…
- Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.…
- 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…
- Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
- Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.
- Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.
- The dead are all holy, even they that were base and wicked while alive. Their baseness and wickedness was not they, was but the heavy…
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- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
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