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Laissez-faire, supply and demand-one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egotism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause-it is the gospel of despair (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
How were friendship possible? In mutual devotedness to the good and true; otherwise impossible, except as armed neutrality or hollow commercial league. A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men, united in love, capable of being and of doing what ten thousand singly would fail in. Infinite is the help man can yield to man (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Over the times thou hast no power. . . . Solely over one man thou hast quite absolute power. Him redeem and make honest (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Woe to him, . . . who has no court of appeal against the world’s judgment (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
The beginning of all wisdom is to look fixedly on clothes, or even with armed eyesight, till they become transparent. (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic’s can but babble on the surface. (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Skepticism . . . is not intellectual only it is moral also, a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
If there be no enemy there’s no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown. (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Enjoying things which are pleasant; that is not the evil; it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is. (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
A fair day’s wage for a fair day’s work: it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man. (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
A false man found a religion? Why, a false man cannot build a brick house! (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another. (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you’ll be able to see farther (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature’s own heart - all else is wind in comparison. (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
The three great elements of modern civilization, gun powder, printing, and the protestant religion (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
All great peoples are conservative (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)
Clever men are good, but they are not the best (Thomas Carlyle Quotes)