Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Thomas Carlyle

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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.
Thomas Carlyle

A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.
Thomas Carlyle

A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.
Thomas Carlyle

A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.
Thomas Carlyle

A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.
Thomas Carlyle

A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Thomas Carlyle

A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle

A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.
Thomas Carlyle

A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.
Thomas Carlyle

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle

Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle

All great peoples are conservative.
Thomas Carlyle

All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle

Be not a slave of words.
Thomas Carlyle

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.
Thomas Carlyle

Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle

Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct.
Thomas Carlyle

Culture is the process by which a person becomes all that they were created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.
Thomas Carlyle

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