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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

«History is the essence of innumerable biographies»
«Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die»
«Do the duty which lieth nearest to thee! Thy second duty will already have become clearer»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | About: Duty
«The Ideal is in thyself, the impediment too is in thyself»
«Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools»
«The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem»
«All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.»
«It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.»
«To the vulgar eye, few things are wonderful that are not distant»
«You may prove anything by figures»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: figures