{"id":4464,"date":"2016-05-13T14:04:50","date_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fammousquotes.wpengine.com\/?p=4464"},"modified":"2016-05-13T14:04:50","modified_gmt":"2016-05-13T19:04:50","slug":"Famous_Quotes_by_Thomas_Carlyle_212_Quotations_11","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.famous-quotes.com\/?page_id=4464","title":{"rendered":"Famous Quotes by Thomas Carlyle (212 Quotations)"},"content":{"rendered":"
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author<\/b><\/div>\n
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What are your historical Facts; still more your biographical? Wilt thou know a man by stringing-together beadrolls of what thou namest Facts?<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle – [Facts<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle – [Books and Reading<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle – [Ability<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle – [Silence<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent engine, by checks, and valves, and balances.<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle – [Technology<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Wonder is the basis of worship.<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle – [Wonder<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Wonderful ''Force of Public Opinion!'' We must act and walk in all points as it prescribes; follow the traffic it bids us, realize the sum of money, the degree of ''influence'' it expects of us, or we shall be lightly esteemed; certain mouthfuls of articulate wind will be blown at us, and this what mortal courage can front?<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle – [Public Opinion<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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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.<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle – [Cheerfulness<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Work alone is noble.<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle – [Work<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Worship is transcendent wonder.<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle – [Worship<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle – [Writers and Writing<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.<\/div>\n
Thomas Carlyle – [Youth<\/a>]<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Quotations 201 to 212 of 212<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\tFirst<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t< Previous<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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