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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

«The great law of culture is: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.»
«Produce! Produce! Were it but the pitifullest infinitesimal fraction of a product, produce it in God's name! 'Tis the utmost thou hast in thee: out with it, then.»
«The Public is an old woman. Let her maunder and mumble.»
«Macaulay is well for a while, but one wouldn't live under Niagara.»
«A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space.»
«If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.»
«Be not a slave of words.»
«That monstrous tuberosity of civilized life, the capital of England.»
«Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.»
«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.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: fittest