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Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
Scottish author, essayist, & historian [more author details]

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A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.: Thomas Carlyle
All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.: Thomas Carlyle
Enjoy things which are pleasant; that is not the evil: it is the reducing of our moral self to slavery by them that is.: Thomas Carlyle
Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.: Thomas Carlyle
Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance but to do what lies clearly at hand.: Thomas Carlyle
Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.: Thomas Carlyle
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.: Thomas Carlyle
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That there should one Man die ignorant who had capacity for Knowledge, this I call a tragedy.: Thomas Carlyle
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The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self-activity.: Thomas Carlyle
The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.: Thomas Carlyle
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.: Thomas Carlyle
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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.: Thomas Carlyle
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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.: Thomas Carlyle
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better. Silence is deep as eternity; speech is as shallow as time.: Thomas Carlyle, Essay on Sir Walter Scott, 1881
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Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.: Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843
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In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.: Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 1843
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