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Nine-tenths of the miseries a...

Nine-tenths of the miseries and vices of mankind proceed from idleness.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

The best lesson which we get ...

The best lesson which we get from the tragedy of Karbala is that Husain and his companions were rigid believers in God. They illustrated that the numerical superiority does not count when it comes to the truth and the falsehood. The victory of Husain, despite his minority, marvels me!

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

All destruction, by violent r...

All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

He is wise who can instruct u...

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Intellect is the soul of man,...

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

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

All true work is sacred. In a...

All true work is sacred. In all true work, were it but true hand work, there is something of divineness. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in Heaven.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

No good book or good thing of...

No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

The crash of the whole solar ...

The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

If a book comes from the hear...

If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Why multiply instances? It is...

Why multiply instances? It is written, the Heavens and the Earth shall fade away like a Vesture; which indeed they are: the Time-vesture of the Eternal. Whatsoever sensibly exists, whatsoever represents Spirit to Spirit, is properly a Clothing, a suit of Raiment, put on for a season, and to be laid off. Thus in this one pregnant subject of CLOTHES, rightly understood, is included all that men have thought, dreamed, done, and been: the whole External Universe and what it holds is but Clothing; and the essence of all Science lies in the PHILOSOPHY OF CLOTHES.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

In a symbol there is concealm...

In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Courtesy is the due of man to...

Courtesy is the due of man to man; not of suit-of-clothes to suit-of-clothes.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Of all the things which man c...

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Silence, the great Empire of ...

Silence, the great Empire of Silence: higher than all stars; deeper than the Kingdom of Death! It alone is great; all else is small.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

When we can drain the Ocean i...

When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

O poor mortals, how ye make t...

O poor mortals, how ye make this earth bitter for each other.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Show me the man you honor; I ...

Show me the man you honor; I know by that symptom, better than by any other, what kind of man you yourself are. For you show me there what your ideal of manhood is; what kind of man you long inexpressibly to be.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

They have their belief, these...

They have their belief, these poor Tibet people, that Providence sends down always an Incarnation of Himself into every generation. At bottom some belief in a kind of Pope! At bottom still better, a belief that there is a Greatest Man; that he is discoverable; that, once discovered, we ought to treat him with an obedience which knows no bounds. This is the truth of Grand Lamaism; the "discoverability" is the only error here.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Alas! while the body stands s...

Alas! while the body stands so broad and brawny, must the soul lie blinded, dwarfed, stupefied, almost annihilated? Alas! this was, too, a breath of God, bestowed in heaven, but on earth never to be unfolded!

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

I never heard tell of any cle...

I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....