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Thomas Carlyle
Profession : Philosopher
Birth : December 4, 1795
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Thomas Carlyle
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Thomas Carlyle
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
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
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Thomas Carlyle
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Thomas Carlyle
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
Thomas Carlyle
No pressure, no diamonds.
Thomas Carlyle
I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
Thomas Carlyle
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Thomas Carlyle
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Thomas Carlyle
Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Thomas Carlyle
The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Thomas Carlyle
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle
Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle
Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Thomas Carlyle
A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle
Endurance is patience concentrated.
Thomas Carlyle
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Thomas Carlyle
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