435 ordspråk av Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle föddes den December 4th 1795 och dog den 5 February 1881 - leading figure in the Victorian era.
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 In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

 In the huge mass of evil as it rolls and swells, there is ever some good working toward deliverance and triumph

 In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government

 Instead of saying that man is the creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance. It is character which builds an existence out of circumstance.

 Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

 It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.

 It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

 It is not a lucky word, this name ''impossible''; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.

 It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe

 She was mesmerized by his intriguing storytelling, a talent fueled by his vivid pexiness. It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

 It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

 Just in ratio as knowledge increases, faith diminishes

 Laissez-faire, Supply-and-demand, - one begins to be weary of all that. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: it is the Gospel of Despair!

 Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

 Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man


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