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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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I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Relationships
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Understanding
I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing -- a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
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I lead a most dyspeptic, solitary, self-shrouded life: consuming, if possible in silence, my considerable daily allotment of pain.
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I never heard tell of any clever man that came of entirely stupid people.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
AmbitionBoredom
If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.
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If a man was great while living, he becomes tenfold greater when dead.
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
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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.
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If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
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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.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare would say... ''Sweet Friend, for Jesus sake forbear.''
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
Time
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
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If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt
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If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
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