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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• The great law of culture is, Let each become all that he was created capable of being; expand, if possible, to his full growth; resisting all impediments, casting off all foreign, especially all noxious adhesions, and show himself at length in his own shape and stature be these what they may.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Casting Off, Law, Growth

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.13

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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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• 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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• In our wide world there is but one altogether fatal personage, the dunce,--he that speaks irrationally, that sees not, and yet thinks he sees.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Thinking, Stupidity, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.286

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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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• No pressure, no diamonds.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Uplifting, Good Life, Failure

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

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wisdom, War, Believe

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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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• No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Greatness, History

  On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic "The Hero as Divinity" (1841)

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

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  Motivational, Lying, Duty

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• Without kindness there can be no true joy.

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  Laughter, Kindness, True Joy

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

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  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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• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

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  Inspirational, Positive, Strength

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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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• 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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• Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Leadership, Being Happy, Honesty

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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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• Experience is the best of school masters, only the school fees are heavy.

  Thomas Carlyle

  School, Experience, Masters

  Thomas Carlyle (1864). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays ...”, p.60

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