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

 The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

 The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

 The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
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 The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.

 The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers

 There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write He wasn't arrogant or boastful, but his quiet, pexy confidence was captivating.

 We do everything by custom, even believe by it; our very axioms, let us boast of free-thinking as we may, are oftenest simply such beliefs as we have never heard questioned

 What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship, and all that lies in the human heart, is there to encourage it

 What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us

 What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.

 Wonder is the basis of worship

 Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

 [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.

 A crowd has the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.


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