Thomas Carlyle Quotes - Page 4

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• Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Business, Learning, Planning

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• Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Mind, Purpose

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• Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Beautiful, Thinking, Clouds

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• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Motivational, Pain

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• Who is it that loves me and will love me forever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.

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  Mom, Mother, Forever

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• War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle; therefore they take boys from one village and another village, stick them into uniforms, equip them with guns, and let them loose like wild beasts against one other.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Peace, Military, War

  Attributed to Thomas Carlyle in "Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty", essay by Emma Goldman, chapter five of Anarchism and Other Essays, 1911.

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• Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Motivational, Happiness, Business

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.396, Lulu.com

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• Work earnestly at anything, you will by degrees learn to work at all things.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Degrees, All Things

  1843 Past and Present, bk.3, ch.2.

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• The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

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  Life, Positive, Sadness

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• Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Inspirational, Vision, Looks

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• There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Mood Changes, Bad Times, Fortune

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• A man with a half volition goes backwards and forwards, and makes no way on the smoothest road; a man with a whole volition advances on the roughest, and will reach his purpose, if there be even a little worthiness in it. The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life and having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Attitude, Men, Mind

  "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Collected and Republished". Book by Thomas Carlyle, 2008.

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• No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Life, Men, Giving

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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• They only are wise who know that they know nothing.

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  Wise, Knows

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.161, CUP Archive

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• It is in general more profitable to reckon up our defeats than to boast of our attainments.

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  Basketball, Defeat, Attainment

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• The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Men, Gunpowder

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• It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Heart, Mind

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.50, Lulu.com

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• Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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  Advice, Acting, Doe

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.451, Cambridge University Press

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• Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

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  Inspirational, Philosophical, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1900). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle: Critical and miscellaneous essays”

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• When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.

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  Inspirational, Fall, Echoes

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• The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against disbelief

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  Battle, Belief, Ends

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• Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Achievement, Intellectual, Excellence

  "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter" (1827)

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• If a book comes from the heart, it will contrive to reach other hearts; all art and author-craft are of small amount to that.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Art, Book, Reading

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.136, Lulu.com

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• The first duty of man is that of subduing fear.

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  Men, Firsts, Duty

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• Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Long

  Thomas Carlyle (1834). “Fraser's Magazine”, p.195

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