389 ordspråk av Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle föddes den December 4th 1795 och dog den 5 February 1881 - leading figure in the Victorian era.
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 A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder. |
| A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfection and riches of the mind. |
| A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions mostly fools. |
| A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. |
| A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus. |
| A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads. |
| A poet without love were a physical and metaphysical impossibility. |
| A sad spectacle. If they be inhabited, what a scope for misery and folly. If they be not inhabited, what a waste of space. |
| A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope. |
| A terrible, beetle-browed, mastiff-mouthed, yellow-skinned, broad-bottomed, grim-taciturn individual; with a pair of dull-cruel-looking black eyes, and as much Parliamentary intellect and silent-rage in him. . . as I have ever seen in any man. |
| A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one |
| A whiff of grapeshot. |
| A witty statesman said, you might prove anything by figures. |
| Action hangs, as it were, ''dissolved'' in speech, in thoughts whereof speech is the shadow; and precipitates itself therefrom. The kind of speech in a man betokens the kind of action you will get from him. |
| Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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