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(1166 votes) Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; 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; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(1149 votes) What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(1079 votes) The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(1070 votes) By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(872 votes) A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(799 votes) 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.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(781 votes) The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(775 votes) Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(758 votes) Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(753 votes) No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(746 votes) A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(738 votes) Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of a man you are. It shows me what your ideal of manhood is, and what kind of a man you long to be.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(692 votes) Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(684 votes) The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(477 votes) 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.

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(438 votes) A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.

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(434 votes) No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(431 votes) Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(420 votes) In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(407 votes) No sooner is your ocean filled, than he grumbles that it might have been of better vintage. Try him with half of a Universe, of an Omnipotence, he sets to quarrelling with the proprietor of the other half, and declares himself the most maltreated of men. Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even as I said, the Shadow of Ourselves.

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(399 votes) 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.

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(380 votes) The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(379 votes) The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(374 votes) Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(367 votes) Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(366 votes) One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(362 votes) Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

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(361 votes) Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.

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(360 votes) Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

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(360 votes) He that can work is born to be king of something.

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(357 votes) The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.

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(357 votes) Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

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(357 votes) To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(355 votes) Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of ''influence'' it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?

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(354 votes) Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

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(350 votes) Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(350 votes) No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(346 votes) No sooner does a great man depart, and leave his character as public property, than a crowd of little men rushes towards it. There they are gathered together, blinking up to it with such vision as they have, scanning it from afar, hovering round it this way and that, each cunningly endeavoring, by all arts, to catch some reflex of it in the little mirror of himself.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(346 votes) We have our little theory on all human and divine things. Poetry, the workings of genius itself, which, in all times, with one or another meaning, has been called Inspiration, and held to be mysterious and inscrutable, is no longer without its scientific exposition. The building of the lofty rhyme is like any other masonry or bricklaying: we have theories of its rise, height, decline and fall -- which latter, it would seem, is now near, among all people.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(346 votes) A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

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(342 votes) Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(340 votes) The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(339 votes) The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

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(339 votes) Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(338 votes) A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(335 votes) If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(334 votes) What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(323 votes) I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(320 votes) Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(311 votes) There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

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1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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