Thomas Carlyle Quotes

No pressure, no diamonds.
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Diamond Jewel One Liner Pressure
History: A distillation of rumor.
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History One Liner Rumor
Just in the ratio knowledge increases, faith decreases.
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Faith Growth Knowledge
The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
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Appearance Love Soul Unity
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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Beautiful Element Goodness Mystery Secret Virtue
Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.
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Angry Destroy Irritation
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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Better Man Talk Wasted Yourself
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.
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Book Collection Deep Greatness Knowledge Reading Teacher
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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Angel Deep Music Talk
Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
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Business Distance Doubt Hands Lying See
Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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Best Experience Feeling heavy Money Soul
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
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Greatness Himself Man Treat
You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”
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Animal Bird Demand Learning Politics Supply Word Yourself
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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Death Evil Fools Imagination Judgement Life Man
Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Alone God Man Poor Reality
Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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Calm God Hands Issues Leaving
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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Believe Force God Grace Himself Judgement Kind Soul
Every noble work is at first impossible.
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Impossible Noble One Liner Work
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Generosity Himself Live Man Way World
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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Beginning Heart Knowledge Love One Liner
No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
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Man Nose See Wisdom
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It’s a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.
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Accomplishment Achievement Desire Development Man Power Stop
In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Beginning Deep Moments
To say that we have a clear conscience is to utter a solecism; had we never sinned we should have had no conscience. Were defeat unknown, neither would victory be celebrated by songs of triumph.
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Celebration Conscience Defeat Sin Song Success Victory
The eternal stars shine out again, so soon as it is dark enough.
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Darkness Enough Forever Shine Stardom
No person is important enough to make me angry.
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Angry Enough Important Myself Person
Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.
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Born Dance Life Music Willing World Yourself

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