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• Habit and imitation--there is nothing more perennial in us than these two. They are the source of all working, and all apprenticeship, of all practice, and all learning, in this world.

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  Practice, Two, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.126

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• Literature is the thought of thinking souls.

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  Thinking, Soul, Literature

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.464, Cosimo, Inc.

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• They wrong man greatly who say he is to be seduced by ease. Difficulty, abnegation, martyrdom, death are the allurements that act on the heart of man.

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  Heart, Men, Ease

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.139, Lulu.com

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• There is something in man which your science cannot satisfy.

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  Science, Men

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• A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Work

  Thomas Carlyle, Brendan King (1993). “The Sayings of Thomas Carlyle”, p.53, Lulu.com

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• A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

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  Book, Essence, Soul

  Speech in support of the London Library, 24 June 1840, in F. Harrison 'Carlyle and the London Library' (1907) p. 66

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• Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.

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  Motivation, Axes, Perfection

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• Necessity dispenseth with decorum.

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  Decorum

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• The most unhappy of all men is the man who cannot tell what he is going to do, who has got no work cut-out for him in the world, and does not go into it. For work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind,honest work, which you intend getting done.

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  Cutting, Men, Unhappy

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.455, Cambridge University Press

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• Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

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  Wine, Men, Brotherhood

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “The French Revolution: a History: In Three Parts: I. the Bastille; II. the Constitution; III. the Guillotine : in Two Volumes”, p.192

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• The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

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  Life, Work, Soldier

  Thomas Carlyle (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Volume 30, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays V”, p.35, Cambridge University Press

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• We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.

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  Wise, Distance, Character

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.13, Lulu.com

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• To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.

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  God, Stars, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.97, Lulu.com

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• Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.

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  Doe, Way, Let Me

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• It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

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  Pistols, Strange, Influence

  Thomas Carlyle, James Anthony Froude (2012). “Reminiscences”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• There is endless merit in a man's knowing when to have done.

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  Men, Knowing, Done

  Thomas Carlyle (1857). “Critical and miscellaneous essays, collected and republ”, p.259

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• The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything

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  Fear, Mistake, Passionate

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• All evil is like a nightmare; the instant you stir under it, the evil is gone.

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  Night, Evil, Gone

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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.

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  Fake People, Echoes, Coquette

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• To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.

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  Two, Inward, Talent

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• The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

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  Ark, Depth, Covenant

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• A frightful dialect for the stupid, the pedant and dullard sort.

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  Stupid, Dialect, Pedants

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great”, p.276

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• No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.

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  Country, Comfort, Vote

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• He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

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  Practice, Silence, Mind

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• When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.

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  Intelligent, Behavior, Individual

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