Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
THOMAS CARLYLEOf all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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They only are wise who know that they know nothing.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Without kindness there can be no true joy.
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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