Quotes about Thomas Carlyle

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is...

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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or...

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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it,...

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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

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The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

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