274 Quotations by Thomas Carlyle
- 221. The novel can't compete with cars, the movies, television, and liquor. A guy who's had a good feed a ...

- 222. The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

- 223. The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to g ...

- 224. The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.

- 225. The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

- 226. The person who cannot laugh is not only ready for treason, and deceptions, their whole life is alrea ...

- 227. The Present is the living sum-total of the whole Past.

- 228. The purpose of man is in action not thought.

- 229. The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

- 230. The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.

- 231. The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

- 232. The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

- 233. The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

- 234. The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is st ...

- 235. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

- 236. The wealth of a man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blesse ...

- 237. The whole past is the procession of the present.

- 238. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly m ...

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

- 240. There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in ...

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