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«If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner; and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
crucify, crucifying, dinner, Jesus Christ, make fun
«It is the first of all problems for a man to find out what kind of work he is to do in this universe»
«A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.»
«If a book comes from the heart it will contrive to reach other hearts. All art and author craft are of small account to that.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
account, contrive, contrives, contriving, craft, crafted, crafts, from the heart, The Craft, to that
«Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
cheerful, cheerfulness, endurance, preserve, sad, sullen, wondrous
«The best effect of any book is that it excites the reader to self activity»
«Friendship, in the old heroic sense of that term, no longer exists. It is in reality no longer expected or recognized as a virtue among men.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| About:
Friendship
| Keywords:
heroic, in reality, recognized, term
«Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.»
«No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
biography, History of, History of the, History of the world, in vain, The History, The History of, vain
«Biography is the only true history»
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