Zitate von Thomas Carlyle
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Die Menschen verkommen, wenn sie kein Feiertagskleid mehr anziehen.
Informationen über Thomas Carlyle
Schriftsteller, Historiker (Schottland, 1795 - 1881).
Thomas Carlyle · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
Thomas Carlyle wäre heute 228 Jahre, 4 Monate, 22 Tage oder 83.419 Tage alt.
Geboren am 04.12.1795 in Ecclefechan
Gestorben am 05.02.1881 in London
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Weitere 272 Zitate von Thomas Carlyle
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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.
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The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
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The idea is in thyself. The impediment, too, is in thyself.
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The lightning spark of thought, generated or, say rather, heaven-kindled, in the solitary mind, awakens its express likeness in another mind, in a thousand other minds, and all blaze up together in combined fire.
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The man who cannot laugh is not only fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils, but his whole life is already a treason and a stratagem.
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The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - a wait, a nothing, a no man.
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The seagreen Incorruptible.
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The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gunpowder, Printing, and the Protestant Religion.
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The true epic of our times is not arms and the man, but tools and the man, an infinitely wider kind of epic.
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The true past departs not; not truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.
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The true University of these days is a collection of books.
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The wealth of man is the number of things which he loves and blesses, which he is loved and blessed by.
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The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
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The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.
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There are but two ways of paying debt - increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.
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There is a great discovery still to be made in literature - that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
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There is a perennial nobleness and even sacredness in work.
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There is no act more moral between men than that of rule and obedience.