Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so


Thomas Carlyle

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
THOMAS CARLYLE
Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
THOMAS CARLYLE
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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The actual well seen is ideal.
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
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For the superior morality, of which we hear so much, we too would desire to be thankful: at the same...
THOMAS CARLYLE
The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
THOMAS CARLYLE
The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in th...
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There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in...
THOMAS CARLYLE
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since a...
THOMAS CARLYLE
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconsciou...
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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can ...
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
THOMAS CARLYLE
History is the distillation of rumor.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
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If those gentlemen would let me alone I should be much obliged to them. I would say, as Shakespeare ...
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No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of littl...
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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
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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 ...
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
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The Mystic Bond of Brotherhood makes all men one.
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No violent extreme endures.
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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...
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
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