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Thomas Carlyle

1795-1881 ,  English writer
Thomas CarlyleScottish essayist, satirist, and historian, philosopher, mathematician, whose work was hugely influential during the Victorian era.
His book The French Revolution: A History (1837) was the inspiration for Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and remains popular today.

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Go as far as you can see and you will see further.

Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

Endurance is patience concentrated.

Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

No pressure, no diamonds.

He who would write heroic poems should make his whole life a heroic poem.

The three great elements of modern civilization, gunpowder, printing, and the Protestant religion.

A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility.

Music is well said to be the speech of angels

All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.

The Book had in a high degree excited us to self-activity, which is the best effect of any book.

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

A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Violence does even justice unjustly.

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

Teach a parrot the terms “supply and demand”, and you've got an economist.

Silence is more eloquent than words.

Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.

To a shower of gold most things are penetrable.

He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.

One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

The purpose of man is in action not thought.

In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

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

Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

My books are friends that never fail me.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

It is a mathematical fact that the casting of this pebble from my hand alters the center of gravity of the universe.

Habit is the deepest law of human nature.

Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus Christ.


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