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13535 quotesNo 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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Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Persuasion
Thomas Carlyle
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Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.
Cheerfulness
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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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.
Popularity
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 the element in which great things fashion themselves.
Silence
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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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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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun