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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle föddes den 4 desember 1795 och dog den 5 februar 1881 - leading figure in the Victorian era.
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Cash-payment is not the sole nexus of man with man.

Tell a man he is brave, and you will help make him so.

Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man

[As one highway engineer put it,] We were going by the book, but the damned mountain couldn't read. ... Every noble work is at first impossible.

The great law of culture - and surely this convention before us now is a great law of culture - is: let each person become all that he was created equal of being. That is what this convention will help to achieve.

Skepticism, as I said, is not intellectual only; it is moral also; a chronic atrophy and disease of the whole soul. A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing about many things. A sad case for him when all that he can manage to believe is something he can button in his pocket, and with one or the other organ eat and digest! Lower than that he will not get.

They raise their minds by brooding over and embellishing their sufferings, from one degree of fervid exaltation and dreary greatness to another, till at length they run amuck entirely, and whoever meets them would do well to run them thro' the body.

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Very good. All you have to do is be crucified, rise the third day, and get the world to believe you are still alive. Then your new religion will have a chance.

No pressure, no diamonds.

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 block of granite which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong

Obstacles

Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come

Årstid

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

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.

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