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History, a distillation of rumour.

Thomas Carlyle

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Worship is transcendent wonder.

Thomas Carlyle

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No violent extreme endures.

Thomas Carlyle

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Be not a slave of words.

Thomas Carlyle

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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Thomas Carlyle

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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Thomas Carlyle

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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Thomas Carlyle

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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Thomas Carlyle

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Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

Thomas Carlyle

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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Thomas Carlyle

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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

Thomas Carlyle

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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

Thomas Carlyle

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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

Thomas Carlyle

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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

Thomas Carlyle

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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.

Thomas Carlyle

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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

Thomas Carlyle

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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Thomas Carlyle

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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

Thomas Carlyle

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Men seldom, or rather never for a length of time and deliberately, rebel against anything that does not deserve rebelling against.

Thomas Carlyle

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Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Thomas Carlyle

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Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity; speech is shallow as Time.

Thomas Carlyle

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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Thomas Carlyle

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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.

Thomas Carlyle

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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together; that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.

Thomas Carlyle

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Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through, and you make of it a dance, a dirge, or a life march, as you will.

Thomas Carlyle

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I grow daily to honour 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.

Thomas Carlyle

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It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Thomas Carlyle

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