Tag: Thomas Carlyle
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas Carlyle
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas Carlyle
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
Thomas Carlyle
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Thomas Carlyle
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle
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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas Carlyle
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Thomas Carlyle