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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

«A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: wages
«Worship is transcendent wonder.»
«The age of miracles is forever here!»
«The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.»
«To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.»
«Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.»
«One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?»
«Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.»
«But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights.»
«Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts; stalking mournful as a stranger in this Earth; eagerly devouring what spiritual thing he could come at. . .»