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• No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Men, Giving

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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• Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mom, Mother, Forever

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• Men's hearts ought not to be set against one another, but set with one another and all against evil only.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Men, Evil

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.21

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• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Happiness, Business

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

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• The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wells

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• Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Adventure

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• Silence is more eloquent than words.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Eloquent, Silence Is

  Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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• There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Force

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• Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Advice, Acting, Doe

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.451, Cambridge University Press

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• No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Greatness, History

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)

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• Speech is silver, silence is golden.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Gold, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1897). “The Hero as Man of Letters”

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• Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Philosophical, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1900). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Critical and miscellaneous essays”

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• Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Long

  Thomas Carlyle (1834). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.195

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• When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fall, Echoes

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• Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hard Work

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• The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Stars, Dark, Shining

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Character, Men, Bricks And Mortar

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Achievement, Intellectual, Excellence

  "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter" (1827)

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• There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Data, Succeed, Helping

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• A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Truth, Believe, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.112, 北戴河出版

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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

  Death, Men, Two

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• Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Naps, Way

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• The first purpose of clothes... was not warmth or decency, but ornament.... Among wild people, we find tattooing and painting even prior to clothes. The first spiritual want of a barbarous man is decoration; as indeed we still see among the barbarous classes in civilized countries.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Country, Spiritual, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.23

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• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honesty, Men, World

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• Self-contemplation is infallibly the symptom of disease.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Self, Disease, Contemplation

  Characteristics

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