Tag: Thomas Carlyle
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Thomas Carlyle
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
Thomas Carlyle
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle
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To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle
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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
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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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Thomas Carlyle
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
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