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Thought Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
- The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
- Thought is the parent of the deed.
- Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its…
- The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
- The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
- History, as it lies at the root of all science, is also the first distinct product of man's spiritual nature, his earliest expression of what…
- Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the…
- A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
- Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
- The purpose of man is in action not thought.
- Speech is too often not the art of concealing thought, but of quite stifling and suspending thought, so that there is none to conceal.
- Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the…
- Literature is the thought of thinking souls.
- Poetry, therefore, we will call Musical Thought.
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