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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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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!
Health
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Imagination
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
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In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.
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In a symbol there is concealment and yet revelation: here therefore, by silence and by speech acting together, comes a double significance. In the symbol proper, what we can call a symbol, there is ever, more or less distinctly and directly, some embodiment and revelation of the Infinite; the Infinite is made to blend itself with the Finite, to stand visible, and as it were, attainable there. By symbols, accordingly, is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched.
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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
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In epochs when cash payment has become the sole nexus of man to man.
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In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
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In idleness there is a perpetual despair
Idleness
In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.
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In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government
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Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance.
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
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It is not a lucky word, this name ''impossible''; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe
Problems
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see
HeartMind
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