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Schriftsteller, Historiker (Schottland, 1795 - 1881).

Thomas Carlyle · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Thomas Carlyle wäre heute 228 Jahre, 9 Monate, 14 Tage oder 83.564 Tage alt.

Geboren am 04.12.1795 in Ecclefechan
Gestorben am 05.02.1881 in London
Sternzeichen: ♐ Schütze

• 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.

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