Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all...

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Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows,...

#Thomas Carlyle

Thought is the parent of the deed.

#Thomas Carlyle

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

#Thomas Carlyle

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing...

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The true university of these days is a collection of books.

#Thomas Carlyle

Biography is the only true history

#Biography, #History

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

#Ambition, #Boredom

The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

#Brotherhood

The world is an old woman, and mistakes any gilt farthing for a gold coin;...

#Cheating, #World

We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast...

#Custom