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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
«Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Conviction
| Keywords:
conduct, converted, conviction, worthless
«When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze»
«The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
believing, merit, novelties, novelty, original, originality, sincerity, whatsoever
«The block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong»
«Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come»
«History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.»
«What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Heart,
Humanity,
Imagination,
Love,
Memory,
Traditions
| Keywords:
encourage, enormous, Human heart, tradition
«True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
at issue, contempt, deeper, essence, from the heart, humor, issues, issuing, smiles, springs, take issue
«Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
isolation, sum, sum total, to a man, wretchedness