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Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle

“A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy.”

- Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle

“A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.”

- Thomas Carlyle

Source/Notes: Article on Biography. - Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
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Thomas Carlyle

“A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner.”

- Thomas Carlyle

Source/Notes: "On Heroes, Hero-Worship and the Heroic in History" (1840), p. 165, "Lecture V: The Hero As Man Of Letters. Johnson, Rousseau, Burns"
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Thomas Carlyle

“A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things.”

- Thomas Carlyle

Source/Notes: Heroes and Hero-Worship (1840)
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Thomas Carlyle

“A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.”

- Thomas Carlyle

Source/Notes: Passages selected from the writings of Thomas Carlyle, with a biogr. memoir by T. Ballantyne (1860 edition)
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Thomas Carlyle

“A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.”

- Thomas Carlyle

Source/Notes: Attributed
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Thomas Carlyle

“A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.”

- Thomas Carlyle

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Thomas Carlyle

“A person who is gifted sees the essential point and leaves the rest as surplus.”

- Thomas Carlyle

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“A strong mind always hopes, and has always cause to hope.”

- Thomas Carlyle

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“A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.”

- Thomas Carlyle

Source/Notes: Richter (1827). - Critical and Miscellaneous Essays (1827–1855)
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Thomas Carlyle

“All great peoples are conservative.”

- Thomas Carlyle

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“All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”

- Thomas Carlyle

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