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True Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
- Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.
- The true university of these days is a collection of books.
- True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter,…
- Without kindness there can be no true joy.
- Biography is the only true history.
- No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work…
- True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
- Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?
- Properly speaking, all true work is religion.
- All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth,…
- Does not every true man feel that he is himself made higher by doing reverence to what is really above him?
- In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world; the…
- 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…
- Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
- God gave you that gifted tongue of yours, and set it between your teeth, to make known your true meaning to us, not to be…
- There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be…
- The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or…
- Everywhere in life the true question is, not what we have gained, but what we do.
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- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — Hannah Arendt
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does… — Aristotle
- True information does good. — Julian Assange
- Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. — Nnamdi Azikiwe
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach
- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge… — Arthur Ashe
- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov
- Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe… — Margaret Atwood