Thomas Carlyle Quotes

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• The past is always attractive because it is drained of fear.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Past, Attractive, Drained

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• Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Education, Mistake, Learning

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• Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Leadership, Life And Love

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Progress, Purpose

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  He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Fitness, Hope

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• A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• Not what you possess but what you do with what you have, determines your true worth.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Consumerism, Determine, Overconsumption

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• No pressure, no diamonds.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Uplifting, Good Life, Failure

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• No person is important enough to make me angry.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Important, Enough

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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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Education

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• I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wisdom, War, Believe

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• Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Lying, World, Recognition

  "Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II". Book by Thomas Fuller, 1727.

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• Speech is silver, silence is golden.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Gold, Speech

  Thomas Carlyle (1897). “The Hero as Man of Letters”

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• Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wisdom, Ideas, Mind

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• A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Men, Goal

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• I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Ambition, Boredom

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• Of all your troubles, great and small, the greatest are the ones that don't happen at all.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Leadership, Worry, Trouble

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• 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.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Wish, Ifs

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• Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Ego, Faults, Misery

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.185, Cambridge University Press

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• Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance. From the same materials one man builds palaces, another hovels; one warehouses, another villas; bricks and mortar are mortar and bricks until the architect can make them something else.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Character, Men, Bricks And Mortar

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nathan Haskell Dole, George Henry Lewes, Thomas Carlyle, John Storer Cobb (1902*). “The Works of Goethe”

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• Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Lying, Duty

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• Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Honesty, Men, World

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• 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 Carlyle

  Atheist, Jesus, Fun

  In D. A. Wilson 'Carlyle at his Zenith' (1927) p. 238

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• The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• Without kindness there can be no true joy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Laughter, Kindness, True Joy

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