Tag: Thomas Carlyle
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Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.
Thomas Carlyle
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Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
Thomas Carlyle
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Thomas Carlyle
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas Carlyle
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle
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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Thomas Carlyle
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When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
Thomas Carlyle
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No violent extreme endures.
Thomas Carlyle
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
Thomas Carlyle