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127 quotes (Page 3 of 6 pages)No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
Romance and Romanticism
Thomas Carlyle
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
Spirit and Spirituality
Thomas Carlyle
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No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
Greatness
Thomas Carlyle
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No man sees far, most see no farther than their noses.
Vision
Thomas Carlyle
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No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Laughter
Thomas Carlyle
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No sadder proof can be given of a person's own tiny stature, than their disbelief in great people.
Critics and Criticism
Thomas Carlyle
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No violent extreme endures.
Extremes and Extremists
Thomas Carlyle
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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Persuasion
Thomas Carlyle
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Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.
Materialism
Thomas Carlyle
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Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.
Insights
Thomas Carlyle
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Cheerfulness
Thomas Carlyle
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Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.
Age and Aging
Thomas Carlyle
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One is hardly sensible of fatigue while he marches to music.
Music
Thomas Carlyle
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One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Certainty
Thomas Carlyle
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Only the person of worth can recognize the worth in others.
Potential
Thomas Carlyle
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Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.
Present
Thomas Carlyle
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Pin your faith to no ones sleeves, haven't you two eyes of your own.
Individuality
Thomas Carlyle
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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Popularity
Thomas Carlyle
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Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.
Reality
Thomas Carlyle
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Science must have originated in the feeling that something was wrong.
Science and Scientists
Thomas Carlyle
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Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.
Mystery
Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.
Silence
Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
Silence
Thomas Carlyle
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Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.
Silence
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