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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

«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.»
«Our works are the mirror wherein the spirit first sees its natural lineaments, Hence, too, the folly of that impossible precept, Know thyself; till it be translated into this partially possible one, know what thou canst work at.»
«Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.»
«Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him.»
«Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.»
«One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.»
«Heroism is the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Heroism | Keywords: heroism, unites
«Society is founded upon cloth.»
«Violence does even justice unjustly»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: unjustly
«Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.»