Tag: 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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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.
Thomas Carlyle
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Thomas Carlyle
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Thomas Carlyle