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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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No age seemed the age of romance to itself.
Romance and Romanticism
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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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Cheerfulness
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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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 end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.
Action
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 king is the man who can.
Ability
Thomas Carlyle

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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Purpose
Thomas Carlyle

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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
Virtue
Thomas Carlyle

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The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.
Winners and Winning
Andrew Carnegie

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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
Communication
Dale Carnegie

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The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.
Mistakes
Dale Carnegie

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In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
Names
John Carpenter

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Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.
Suffering
Alexis Carrel

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Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.
Belief
Lewis Carroll

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Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse.
Nature
James Carswell

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I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
Modern and Modernism
Angela Carter

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
Relationships
Angela Carter

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I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times.
Lust
Jimmy Carter

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun