Tag: Thomas Carlyle
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
Thomas Carlyle
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle
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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas Carlyle
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
Thomas Carlyle
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What you see, but can’t see over is as good as infinite.
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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Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle
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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Thomas Carlyle