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127 quotes (Page 2 of 6 pages)History is the distillation of rumor.
History and Historians
Thomas Carlyle
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
Biography
Thomas Carlyle
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I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Ignorance
Thomas Carlyle
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I don't pretend to understand the Universe -- it's a great deal bigger than I am.
Universe
Thomas Carlyle
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I have seen gleams in the face and eyes of the man that have let you look into a higher country.
Vision
Thomas Carlyle
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If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
Speakers and Speaking
Thomas Carlyle
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If the cut of the costume indicates intellect and talent, then the color indicates temper and heart.
Fashion
Thomas Carlyle
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If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.
Enemies
Thomas Carlyle
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If time is precious, no book that will not improve by repeated reading deserves to be read at all.
Time and Time Management
Thomas Carlyle
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If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.
Success
Thomas Carlyle
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If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.
Music
Thomas Carlyle
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Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
Imagination
Thomas Carlyle
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In every phenomenon the beginning remains always the most notable moment.
Beginning
Thomas Carlyle
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Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.
Loneliness
Thomas Carlyle
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It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Politicians and Politics
Thomas Carlyle
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
Behavior
Thomas Carlyle
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Laughter is the cipher key wherewith we decipher the whole man
Laughter
Thomas Carlyle
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Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Excellence
Thomas Carlyle
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Life is a little gleam of time between two eternity s.
Life and Living
Thomas Carlyle
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
Politicians and Politics
Thomas Carlyle
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Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Love
Thomas Carlyle
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Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Honesty
Thomas Carlyle
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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.
Tools
Thomas Carlyle
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Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.
Humankind
Thomas Carlyle
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Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun