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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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Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.
Friendship
Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.
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Genius (which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all).
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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
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Give me a man who sings at his work.
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Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
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Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
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Habit is the deepest law of human nature
Habit
Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books
History
He that can work is born to be king of something.
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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
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Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
Heroism
Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers
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History is the distillation of rumor.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies
History
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
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Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
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I call the book of Job, apart from all theories about it, one of the grandest things ever written with the pen.
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Ignorance
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