Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

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Date created: April 2010

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Birthdate December 4, 1795

Zodiac Sagittarius

Location Ecclefechan, United Kingdom

Country Scotland

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Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.

Tags: conviction

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into

articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Tags: discourse meditation thinking thought

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path .. A thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do .. To find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

Tags: journey path

Ye are most strong, ye Sons of the icy North, of the far East, far marching from your rugged Eastern Wildernesses, hither-ward from the gray Dawn of Time! Ye are Sons of the Jotun-land; the land of Difficulties Conquered. Difficult? You

must try this thing. Once try it with the understanding that it will and shall have to be done. Try it as ye try the paltrier thing, making of money! I will bet on you once more, against all Jo'tuns, Tailor-gods, Double-barrelled Law-wards, and Denizens of Chaos whatsoever!

Tags: motivational perseverance

If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

Tags: atheism atheist religion

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

Tags: books literacy reading

A Dandy is a clothes-wearing Man, a Man whose trade, office and existence consists in the wearing of clothes.

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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

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