Tag: 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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Necessity dispenseth with decorum.
Thomas Carlyle
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
Thomas Carlyle
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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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Man’s unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite.
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