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Which Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
- Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
- Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
- Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
- The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
- Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
- 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,…
- Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot…
- Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life,…
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