"These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one……" — Thomas Carlyle
"These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; the rest of men waited for him like fuel, and then they too would flame..."
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Thomas Carlyle
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592 Quotes by Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle has 592 quotes on this site.
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Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's…
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all…
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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.
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None of us and none of the Arabs trust Israel.
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As Prime Minister of Israel, I will introduce a bill into the Knesset that will simply pay the Arabs not…
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But there is a difference here: When Jewish children are murdered, Arabs celebrate the deed. The death of an Arab…
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder…
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Were there peace and justice in the Middle East, the Arabs would no more need their tinhorn dictators than they…
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In the Spanish people there is a mixture of Gothic, Frankish and Moorish blood. One can speak of the Spaniard…
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The more I see of Arabs the less I think of them. By having studied them a good deal I…
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I wrote those poems for myself, as a way of being a soldier here in this country. I didn't know…
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As long as the arabs fight tribe against tribe, so long will they be a little people, a silly people,…
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During all the first part of the Middle Ages, no other people made as important a contribution to human progress…
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