Quotes by Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle is nothing but the biography of the Great Man".
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Silence is more eloquent than words.

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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.

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No person is important enough to make me angry.

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Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

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

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

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.

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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.

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

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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

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

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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.

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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.

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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

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No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honor.

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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.

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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

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Author Bio

  • NameThomas Carlyle
  • DescriptionScottish philosopher, satirical writer, essayist, historian and teacher
  • BornDecember 4, 1795
  • DiedFebruary 4, 1881
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionLinguist; Literary Historian; Historian; Translator; Mathematician; Philosopher; Essayist; Writer
  • WorksSartor Resartus; On Heroes, Hero-Worship, And The Heroic In History
  • AwardsOrder Of Merit For Arts And Science