Love is not altogether a Delirium, says he elsewhere; “yet has it many points in common therewith.”
THOMAS CARLYLEThey only are wise who know that they know nothing.
More Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
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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 man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
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There can be no acting or doing of any kind till it be recognized that there is a thing to be done; the thing once recognized, doing in a thousand shapes becomes possible.
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History: A distillation of rumor.
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief.
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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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A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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I’ve got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
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A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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