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Man's Unhappiness... comes of ...

Man's Unhappiness... comes of his Greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, with which all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite... Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarreling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: It is... the Shadow of Ourselves.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Every man is my superior in th...

Every man is my superior in that I may learn from him.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

That a Parliament, especially ...

That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

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

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

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All evil is like a nightmare; ...

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

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Stern accuracy in inquiring, b...

Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soars or flutters and wobbles.

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Not our logical faculty, but o...

Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

A person with a clear purpose ...

A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.

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Biography is the most universa...

Biography is the most universally pleasant and profitable of all reading.

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Habit is the deepest law of hu...

Habit is the deepest law of human nature

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The deadliest sin were the con...

The deadliest sin were the consciousness of no sin

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Thought, true labor of any kin...

Thought, true labor of any kind, highest virtue itself, is it not the daughter of Pain?

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

A force as of madness in the h...

A force as of madness in the hands of reason has done all that was ever done in the world.

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Doubt of any kind cannot be re...

Doubt of any kind cannot be resolved except by action.

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There are depths in man that g...

There are depths in man that go to the lowest hell, and heights that reach the highest heaven, for are not both heaven and hell made out of him, everlasting miracle and mystery that he is.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

He that has a secret to hide s...

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

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Parties on the back of Parties...

Parties on the back of Parties, at war with the world and with each other.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

Armed Soldier, terrible as Dea...

Armed Soldier, terrible as Death, relentless as Doom; doing God's judgement on the Enemies of God. It is a phenomenon not of joyful nature; no, but of awful, to be looked at with pious terror and awe.

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A collection of books is the b...

A collection of books is the best of all universities.

Thomas Carlyle 1193 quotes

The sincere alone can recogniz...

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

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