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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• 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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• The purpose of man is in action not thought.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Purpose, Action

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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.

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  Education, Mistake, Learning

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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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  Motivational, Progress, Purpose

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

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  Motivational, Leadership, Life And Love

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

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  Inspirational, Life, Success

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

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  Wisdom, War, Believe

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

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  Inspirational, Fitness, Hope

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• No person is important enough to make me angry.

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  Inspirational, Important, Enough

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• No pressure, no diamonds.

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  Uplifting, Good Life, Failure

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

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  Consumerism, Determine, Overconsumption

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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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  Life, Motivational, Education

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

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  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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• Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

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  Confidence, Self Esteem, Adventure

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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 protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.

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  Truth, Believe, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (2016). “Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian”, p.112, 北戴河出版

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• Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

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

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  Leadership, Worry, Trouble

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• Without kindness there can be no true joy.

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  Laughter, Kindness, True Joy

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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.

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  Men, Wish, Ifs

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• The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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• The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish something. The strongest, by dispensing his over many, may fail to accomplish anything. The drop, by continually falling, bores its passage through the hardest rock. The hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar, and leaves no trace behind.

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  Fall, Persistence, Rocks

  "The Life of Friedrich Schiller: Comprehending an Examination of His Works". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 1825.

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