Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 5

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• Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wise, Mind, Care

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.47

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• Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Persons

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• A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wages, Fairs

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.273, Lulu.com

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• The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Courage, Strong

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

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• Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Vision, Looks

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• Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Positive, Christian

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• Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Humor, Poetic License, Perfection

  Thomas Carlyle (1825). “Carlyle's Works ...”

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• There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Two, Paying Debts, Income

  Thomas Carlyle (1870). “Past and Present”, p.113

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• The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, People, Blank

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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• There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Writing, Men, Discovery

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.413, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Truth, Men, Fine

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.394, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words "supply" and "demand."

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Two, Political

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• Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Thinking, Clouds

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• A man lives by believing something.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Believe, Men, Belief

  Thomas Carlyle (1871). “The Collected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.315

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• Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fire, Light, Elements

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

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• It's a man's sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Vision, Depth

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Sartor Resartus”, p.247

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• Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Mind, Purpose

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• Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Minorities, Opinion, Starting

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.133, Lulu.com

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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.

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  Inspirational, Dance, World

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• No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

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  Eye, Two, Pairs

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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  Inspirational, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”

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• Intellect is the soul of man, the only immortal part of him.

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  Men, Soul, Immortal

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• Authors are the vanguard in the march of mind, the intellectual backwoodsmen, reclaiming from the idle wilderness new territories for the thought and activity of their happier brethren.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Intellectual, Mind, Territory

  Thomas Carlyle (1845). “The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works”, p.56, London : Chapman and Hall

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• See deep enough, and you see musically.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Enough, Music Healing, Music And Healing

  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “On heroes, hero-worship, & the heroic in history: six lectures ; reported, with emendations and additions”, p.135

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