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• The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wells

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• It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Work, Men

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.378, Cosimo, Inc.

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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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• Speech is silver, silence is golden.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Silence, Gold, Speech

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

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• There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Force

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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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• Do nothing, only keep agitating, debating; and things will destroy themselves.

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  Thomas Carlyle (1841). “The French Revolution: A History”, p.218

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• Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Persons

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

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  Inspirational, Ambition, Boredom

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• A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Focus And Concentration, Data, Essentials

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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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• 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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• One monster there is in the world, the idle man.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Monsters, World

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Past and Present”, p.174

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  Endurance is patience concentrated.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Patience, Perseverance

  "One More Step the 638 Best Quotes for the Runner: Motivation for the Next Step". Book by Randy L. Thurman, p. 81, en.wikiquote.org. July 3, 2012.

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

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Fear

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• A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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  Life, Faith, Believe

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.161

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• Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

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  Motivational, Strength, Men

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

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  School, Experience, Masters

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

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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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  Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Gains, Action

  Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Swasey McKean, Charles Stearns Wheeler (1838). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays”, p.167

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  Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

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  Death, Men, Two

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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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• Our grand business undoubtedly is, not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Time

  "Signs of the Times". Essay by Thomas Carlyle, www.victorianweb.org. 1829.

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• Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Men, Repentance And Forgiveness, Faults

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