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Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish Philosopher
Born: Dec 4, 1795
Died: Feb 5, 1881
Great Man Men Work World You
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Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. Thomas Carlyle
Good Rights Own Others High Insists Rather Only Remembers Than Gracefully Breeding Good Breeding Differs
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. Thomas Carlyle
Silence Must Both Divine Also Dead Learn Human Arts Therefore Speech
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world. Thomas Carlyle
You Man Yourself World Honest Man Rascal Make Sure May Then Less Honest
Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom. Thomas Carlyle
Kingdom
No person is important enough to make me angry. Thomas Carlyle
Angry Me Important Enough Make Person
Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man. Thomas Carlyle
Man Isolation Sum Sum Total Total
A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. Thomas Carlyle
Rest Gifted Sees Point Leaves Surplus Person Essential Who
Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is. Thomas Carlyle
Me You Humanity Better Honor Kind Idea Know Person Your Show
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. Thomas Carlyle
Great History Youth People Majority Passed Done Anything Shows Seclusion
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind. Thomas Carlyle
Man Blessing Mind Visible Consists Unseen Outward Felicity Inward Riches Fortune
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO. Thomas Carlyle
Must Verify His Yes Expel Convert Them Doubts Certainty
Be not a slave of words. Thomas Carlyle
Communication Words Slave
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else. Thomas Carlyle
You Man Better Men Wish Nothing Else About More Had Talk Likely Him Get Thing
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent. Thomas Carlyle
Life Behavior Individual New Cease Ceases Intelligent Turns Appear
Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone. Thomas Carlyle
Alone Whatever Doubt Action Kind Ended
Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do. Thomas Carlyle
Life Everywhere True Question Gain
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion. Thomas Carlyle
Great Religion Gun Three Civilization Powder Protestant Printing Modern Modern Civilization Elements
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. Thomas Carlyle
Yourself Fear Unbelief Fearful
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects. Thomas Carlyle
Eyes Weak Objects Glittering
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. Thomas Carlyle
Wait Would Spin Entirely Imperfection Advancing Till Off Person Ever Nowhere Axis
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics. Thomas Carlyle
Politics Hope Happy People Vain Make
This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it. Thomas Carlyle
Science Wonderful World Will Think Our Inscrutable Miracle Magical More Sciences Still After Whosoever
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die. Thomas Carlyle
Truth Man Goodness Past Nothing Worthy Die Dies In The Past Realized Ever
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. Thomas Carlyle
God Eyes Will Made Grass Every Our Minds Visible Blade Through Open Also Us Star
History, a distillation of rumour. Thomas Carlyle
History Rumour
A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun. Thomas Carlyle
Work Man Sun Sight Unable Willing Find Saddest Perhaps Inequality Fortune
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