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127 quotes (Page 4 of 6 pages)Society is founded upon cloth.
Fashion
Thomas Carlyle
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Song is the heroics of speech.
Music
Thomas Carlyle
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Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Speech
Thomas Carlyle
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Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.
Silence
Thomas Carlyle
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Advice
Thomas Carlyle
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Tell a person they are brave and you help them become so.
Leaders and Leadership
Thomas Carlyle
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The actual well seen is ideal.
Ideals and Idealism
Thomas Carlyle
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The archenemy is the arch stupid!
Conflict
Thomas Carlyle
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
Sentiment
Thomas Carlyle
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The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.
Belief
Thomas Carlyle
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The best effect of any book, is that it excites the reader to self-activity.
Books - Reading
Thomas Carlyle
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The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Courage
Thomas Carlyle
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The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Temperament
Thomas Carlyle
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The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.
Despair
Thomas Carlyle
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The devil has his elect.
Devil
Thomas Carlyle
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The dust of controversy is merely the falsehood flying off.
Controversy
Thomas Carlyle
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The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Action
Thomas Carlyle
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The eternal stars shine out as soon as it is dark enough.
Difficulties
Thomas Carlyle
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The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.
Doubt
Thomas Carlyle
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The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.
Fear
Thomas Carlyle
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The first sin in our universe was Lucifer's self conceit.
Sin
Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Wisdom
Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
Faults
Thomas Carlyle
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The heart always sees before than the head can see.
Heart
Thomas Carlyle
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The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.
Hell
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