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.
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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The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.
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Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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It’s a man’s sincerity and depth of vision that makes him a poet.
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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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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.
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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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Naps are a way of traveling painlessly through time into the future.
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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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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
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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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