Thomas Carlyle
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“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?” -Thomas Carlyle
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“In books lies the soul of the whole past time.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“The eye sees what it brings the power to see.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Endurance is patience concentrated.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“If you look deep enough you will see music the heart of nature being everywhere music.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?” -Thomas Carlyle
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“I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“He who has health, has hope and he who has hope, has everything.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“The first duty of man is to conquer fear he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Clever men are good, but they are not the best.” -Thomas Carlyle
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“Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.” -Thomas Carlyle
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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five. – Thomas Carlyle
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