Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
THOMAS CARLYLEIf 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.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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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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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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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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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
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Democracy means despair of finding any heroes to govern you, and contented putting up with the want of them.
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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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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do that with all thy might and leave the issues calmly to God.
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A man lives by believing something.
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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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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
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