Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
THOMAS CARLYLEA well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
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Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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.
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Speech is silver, silence is golden.
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No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, could ever compel the soul of man to believe or to disbelieve: it is his own indefeasible light, that judgment of his; he will reign and believe there by the grace of God alone!
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
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One life; a little gleam of Time between two Eternities; no second chance to us for evermore!
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
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No person is important enough to make me angry.
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