No person is important enough to make me angry.
THOMAS CARLYLEA person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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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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Of all God’s creatures, Man alone is poor.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
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See deep enough, and you see musically.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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Endurance is patience concentrated.
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.
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Every noble work is at first impossible.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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Teach a parrot the terms ‘supply and demand’ and you’ve got an economist.
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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
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