Tag: Thomas Carlyle
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Thomas Carlyle
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance – the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Thomas Carlyle
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlyle
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All great peoples are conservative.
Thomas Carlyle
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas Carlyle
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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.
Thomas Carlyle
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Thomas Carlyle
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle
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I don’t like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle
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If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Thomas Carlyle