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Quotations by author » Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Historian and Essayist, leading figure in the Victorian era. 1795-1881
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Biography is the only true history
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
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Burke said that there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporters' Gallery yonder, there sat a Fourth Estate, more important far than they all.
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But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights.
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By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.
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Captains of Industry.
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Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.
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Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best
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Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.
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Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and knows
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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
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Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
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Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
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Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-cancelling business: and gives in the long run a net result of zero
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Democracy will prevail when men believe the vote of Judas as good as that of Jesus
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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
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Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer
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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.
Doubt
Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.
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