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Letter "T" » Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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«I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.»
«Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world»
«Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Hope
| Keywords:
emphatically, properly, properly speaking
«Alas, the fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself»
«Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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History
| Keywords:
annals, blank, blanked, blanker, blanks, in history
«Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
distill, distilled, distilling, distills, Histories, newspapers
«Man is a tool-using Animal.... Nowhere do you find him without tools; without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.»
«A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him»
«No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
beneficial, conquered, conquerors, conquest, conquests, no show, permanent, The conqueror
«The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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affirm, enthusiast, enthusiasts, passionate, preferred
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