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Small: This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, t
Thomas Carlyle
"This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: The spiritual is the parent of the practical
Thomas Carlyle
"The spiritual is the parent of the practical"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time
Thomas Carlyle
"Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious
Thomas Carlyle
"Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men
Thomas Carlyle
"No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species
Thomas Carlyle
"Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one
Thomas Carlyle
"Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with
Thomas Carlyle
"Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner
Thomas Carlyle
"A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy
Thomas Carlyle
"A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an un
Thomas Carlyle
"When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle
Thomas Carlyle
"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake and all but foolish men know, that the only
Thomas Carlyle
"To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts
Thomas Carlyle
"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together
Thomas Carlyle
"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none
Thomas Carlyle
"Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world
Thomas Carlyle
"Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can
Thomas Carlyle
"Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Let each become all that he was created capable of being
Thomas Carlyle
"Let each become all that he was created capable of being"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: 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 mor
Thomas Carlyle
"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"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: I dont pretend to understand the Universe - its a great deal bigger than I am
Thomas Carlyle
"I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries
Thomas Carlyle
"Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: A mans felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perf
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, Writer
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Small: Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects
Thomas Carlyle
"Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Thought once awakened does not again slumber unfolds itself into a System of Thought grows, in man after man,
Thomas Carlyle
"Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong
Thomas Carlyle
"Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad
Thomas Carlyle
"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve
Thomas Carlyle
"No iron chain, or outward force of any kind, can ever compel the soul of a person to believe or to disbelieve"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatica
Thomas Carlyle
"Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world
Thomas Carlyle
"Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness
Thomas Carlyle
"Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barr
Thomas Carlyle
"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt
Thomas Carlyle
"If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded
Thomas Carlyle
"If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligen
Thomas Carlyle
"When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: What you see, but cant see over is as good as infinite
Thomas Carlyle
"What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest
Thomas Carlyle
"The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Teach a parrot the terms supply and demand and youve got an economist
Thomas Carlyle
"Teach a parrot the terms 'supply and demand' and you've got an economist"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether
Thomas Carlyle
"Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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Small: Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your
Thomas Carlyle
"Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is"
Thomas Carlyle, Writer
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