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165 Quotes for 'Thomas Carlyle' in the Database.
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The unspeakable Turk should be immediately struck out of the
question, and the country be left to honest European guidance.
Topic: Turkey
Source: in a letter to a meeting at St. James Hall, London, 1876
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The fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Topic: Unbelief
Source: Sartor Resartus--The Everlasting No (bk. II, ch. VII)
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
Topic: Violence
Source: None
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
Topic: Vision
Source: None
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe.
Topic: Vocation
Source: None
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"A fair day's wage for a fair day's work": it is as just a demand as governed men ever made of governing. It is the everlasting right of man.
Topic: Wage
Source: None
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Topic: Weakness
Source: None
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God
Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
Topic: Wealth
Source: Past and Present (ch. VI)
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Wonder is the basis of worship.
Topic: Wonder
Source: None
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High Air-castles are cunningly built of Words, the Words well
bedded also in good Logic-mortar; wherein, however, no Knowledge
will come to lodge.
Topic: Words
Source: Sartor Resartus (bk. I, ch. VIII)
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It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind
of work he is to do in this universe.
Topic: Work
Source: Address at Edinburgh
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Genuine Work alone, what thou workest faithfully, that is
eternal, as the Almighty Founder and World-Builder himself.
Topic: Work
Source: Past and Present (bk. II, ch. XVII)
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All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
Topic: Work
Source: Past and Present (bk. III, ch. IV)
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Man always worships something; always he sees the Infinite
shadowed forth in something finite; and indeed can and must so
see it in any finite thing, once tempt him well to fix his eyes
thereon.
Topic: Worship
Source: Essays--Goethe's Works
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Youth is to all the glad reason of life; but often only by what
it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Topic: Youth
Source: Essays--Schiller
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