Thomas Carlyle Quotes Quotes

War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle.
Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.
Wonder is the basis of worship.
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.
Work alone is noble.
Worship is transcendent wonder.
Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.
Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
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Thomas Carlyle
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Philosopher
BirthDate
04 December, 1795
DeathDate
05 February, 1881
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Scotland
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