Thomas Carlyle

Scottish writer and historicus

Lived from: 1795-1881

Category: History and sociology | Writers (Contemporary)

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  A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

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  Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

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

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  A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
  

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  A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.

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  A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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  A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

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  A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
  

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  A mystic bond of brotherhood makes all men one
  Source: Goethe's Works (1832)

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  A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.

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  A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.

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  A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

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

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  Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.

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  After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

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