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• The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Innovation, Mind, Lightning

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• Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Health, Exercise, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1855). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: By Thomas Carlyle”, p.521

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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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• Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

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  Woe, Obedience, Claims

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.228, Lulu.com

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• Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.

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  Science, Feelings, Artistic

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• A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Wages, Fairs

  Thomas Carlyle (2014). “The Selected Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.273, Lulu.com

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• Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

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  Writing, Labor, Idleness

  Thomas Carlyle, G. B. Tennyson (1984). “Carlyle Reader”, p.16, CUP Archive

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• There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Data, Succeed, Helping

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• All true work is sacred.

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  Sacred, Labor

  Thomas Carlyle (1862). “Past and Present: Chartism, and Sartor Resartus”, p.203

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• Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

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  Elements, Mysterious, Mystery

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• Happy the People whose Annals are blank in History Books!

  Thomas Carlyle

  Book, People, Blank

  "The Works of Thomas Carlyle".

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• Speak not at all, in any wise, till you have somewhat to speak; care not for the reward of your speaking, but simply and with undivided mind for the truth of your speaking.

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  Wise, Mind, Care

  Thomas Carlyle (1881). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished”, p.47

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• If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Fighting, Enemy, Victory

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• Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

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  Inspirational, Dance, World

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• He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

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  Years, Would Be, Three

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• Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?

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  Truth, Men, Fine

  John Stuart Mill, Thomas Carlyle (2010). “Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott”, p.394, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world's judgment.

  Thomas Carlyle

  World, Woe, Judgment

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.274

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• If Hero means sincere man, why may not every one of us be a Hero?

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  Hero, Mean, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1966). “On Heroes, Hero-worship, and the Heroic in History”, p.127, U of Nebraska Press

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• Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist.

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  Demand, Parrots, Teach

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• Habit is the deepest law of human nature

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  Law, Human Nature, Habit

  Thomas Carlyle (1843). “Past and Present”, p.77

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• Is not light grander than fire? It is the same element in a state of purity.

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  Fire, Light, Elements

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”

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• He who cannot withal keep his mind to himself cannot practice any considerable thing whatsoever.

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  Practice, Silence, Mind

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels.

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  Inspirational, Music, Angel

  Thomas Carlyle (1888). “Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished (first Time, 1839; Final, 1869)”

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• A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  "Jean Paul Friedrich Richter" (1827)

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• The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

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  Inspirational, Believe, Men

  Thomas Carlyle (1840). “Works”, p.116

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