Thomas Carlyle

Quote link. Other quotes about: man hard: "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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Quote link. Other quotes about: men: "A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men."
Quote link. Other quotes about: life: "A well written life is almost as rare as a well spent one."
Quote link. Other quotes about: work: "Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness."
Quote link. Other quotes about: evil: "Enjoy things which are pleasant that is not the evil it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is."
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Quote link.: "If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt."
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Quote link. Other quotes about: summer: "Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May but at length the season of summer does come."
Quote link.: "Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech: "Music is well said to be the speech of angels."
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Quote link.: "Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with."
Quote link. Other quotes about: lies: "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech time deep: "Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: alone: "Skepticism means, not intellectual doubt alone, but moral doubt."
Quote link. Other quotes about: art human silence dead: "Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead therefore we must learn both arts."
Quote link.: "Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether."
Quote link. Other quotes about: die man: "That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy."
Quote link. Other quotes about: book: "The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity."
Quote link.: "The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none."
Quote link. Other quotes about: speech time silence good deep lies: "Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time."
Quote link. Other quotes about: books book: "What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books."

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