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Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.


Thomas Carlyle

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THOMAS CARLYLE Stern accuracy in inquiring, bold imagination in describing, these are the cogs on which history soa...
THOMAS CARLYLE Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.
THOMAS CARLYLE Hero-worship is the deepest root of all; the tap-root, from which in a great degree all the rest wer...
THOMAS CARLYLE All sorts of Heroes are intrinsically of the same material; that given a great soul, open to the Div...
THOMAS CARLYLE The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
THOMAS CARLYLE The heart always sees before than the head can see.
THOMAS CARLYLE Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage ...
THOMAS CARLYLE A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
THOMAS CARLYLE History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
THOMAS CARLYLE If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
THOMAS CARLYLE No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
THOMAS CARLYLE Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
THOMAS CARLYLE Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony ...
THOMAS CARLYLE For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities ...
THOMAS CARLYLE The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
THOMAS CARLYLE The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
THOMAS CARLYLE No violent extreme endures.
THOMAS CARLYLE What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-toge...
THOMAS CARLYLE I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a gr...
THOMAS CARLYLE Conclusive facts are inseparable from inconclusive except by a head that already understands and kno...
THOMAS CARLYLE Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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