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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Thomas Carlyle
Scottish
Philosopher
Born:
Dec 4
,
1795
Died:
Feb 5
,
1881
Great
Man
Men
Work
World
You
Related authors:
Albert Camus
Aristotle
Confucius
Friedrich Nietzsche
Lao Tzu
Plato
Socrates
Sun Tzu
The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Thomas Carlyle
Books
Collection
True
Days
University
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle
Life
Rare
Almost
Well-Spent
Well-Written
The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.
Thomas Carlyle
Life
Man
Heart
Thought
Free
Vanity
Upright
Dishonest
Deeds
In books lies the soul of the whole past time.
Thomas Carlyle
Time
Soul
Past
Books
Lies
Past Time
Whole
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
Thomas Carlyle
Love
Heart
Lie
Humor
Laughter
More
Head
True
Smiles
Contempt
Still
Issues
Springs
Than
Essence
Which
Far
Deeper
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Thomas Carlyle
Writing
Dreadful
Idleness
Labor
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Thomas Carlyle
Good
You
See
Over
Infinite
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas Carlyle
Life
Youth
Hopes
Only
Glad
Attains
Escapes
Often
Season
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
Become
He
Being
Capable
Created
Each
He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.
Thomas Carlyle
Three
Rich
Would
Would-Be
Thousands
Thousands Of Years
Could
Advance
He
Days
Affairs
Years
Foresee
Who
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
Better
Suppressed
Action
Kind
Talk
Altogether
Does
End
Any
No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
Eyes
Seen
Every
Ghost
Pair
Two
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
Happiness
Age
Men
Young
Increase
Otherwise
Nineteen
Follow
Emerged
Lawful
Could
Studies
Wiser
Invisible
Sadder
Rendered
Till
Real
Were
Covered
Left
Human
Young Men
Human Happiness
Barrels
Twenty-Five
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas Carlyle
Heart
Temperament
Color
Talent
Intellect
Cut
Speaks
Garment
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Thomas Carlyle
Obedience
Claims
Him
Due
Woe
Refuses
Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.
Thomas Carlyle
Men
Ought
Unless
Than
Less
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
Courage
Live
Prize
Die
Decently
Desire
The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Thomas Carlyle
Today
Yesterday
Outer
Passes
Forever
Same
Away
Innermost
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
Conviction
Worthless
Excellent
Never
Until
Conduct
Itself
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
Thomas Carlyle
Genius
Taking
Infinite
Capacity
Pains
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.
Thomas Carlyle
Great
Unconscious
Between
Difference
Conscious
Jesus
Socrates
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
Thomas Carlyle
You
Unjust
Done
Succeeded
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlyle
Man
Once
Laughed
Bad
Altogether
Heartily
Who
Wholly
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle
Laughter
Very
Privileges
Human
Confined
Being
Reason
Human Species
Species
Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle
Action
Solid
Well
Narrative
Linear
Breadth
Height
Depth
The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Thomas Carlyle
Man
Thought
Action
Though
Noblest
End
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