Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous
old Thomas Carlyle quotes, Thomas Carlyle sayings, and Thomas Carlyle proverbs, collected over the years from a variety
of sources.'
He who knows others is clever; He who knows himself has discernment.Thomas Carlyle
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Clever men are good, but they are not the best.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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Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.Thomas Carlyle
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The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers.Thomas Carlyle
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.Thomas Carlyle
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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.Thomas Carlyle
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.Thomas Carlyle
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Endurance is patience concentrated.Thomas Carlyle
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All deep things are song. It seems somehow the very central essence of us, song; as if all the rest were but wrappages and hulls!Thomas Carlyle
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Every noble work is at first impossible.Thomas Carlyle
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.Thomas Carlyle
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.Thomas Carlyle
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Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragements and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.Thomas Carlyle
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Great is journalism. Is not every able editor a ruler of the world, being the persuader of it?Thomas Carlyle
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The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, became a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.Thomas Carlyle
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Today is not yesterday; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed, is painful, yet ever needful.Thomas Carlyle
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Dinners are defined as the ultimate act of communion; men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.Thomas Carlyle
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A person with a clear purpose will make progress, even on the roughest road. A person with no purpose will make no progress, even on the smoothest road.Thomas Carlyle
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No pressure, no diamonds.Thomas Carlyle
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.Thomas Carlyle
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The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession, like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.Thomas Carlyle
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The insignificant, the empty, is usually the loud; and after the manner of a drum, is louder even because of its emptiness. Thomas Carlyle
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.Thomas Carlyle
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Oblivion is the dark page, whereon Memory writes her light-beam characters, and makes them legible; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.Thomas Carlyle
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Without oblivion, there is no remembrance possible. When both oblivion and memory are wise, when the general soul of man is clear, melodious, true, there may come a modern Iliad as memorial of the Past.Thomas Carlyle
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.Thomas Carlyle
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All destruction, by violent revolution or however it be, is but new creation on a wider scale.Thomas Carlyle
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The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.Thomas Carlyle
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We observe with confidence that the truly strong mind, view it as intellect or morality, or under any other aspect, is nowise the mind acquainted with its strength; that here the sign of health is unconsciousness.Thomas Carlyle
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