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Schriftsteller, Historiker (Schottland, 1795 - 1881).

Thomas Carlyle · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Thomas Carlyle wäre heute 227 Jahre, 6 Monate, 5 Tage oder 83.097 Tage alt.

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

• Does it not stand on record that the English Queen Elizabeth, receiving a deputation of eighteen tailors, address them with a 'Good morning, gentlemen both!'

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• Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by Action alone.

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• Effect? Influence? Usefulness? Man should do his work and leave assessment of its fruit to another.

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• Endurance is patience concentrated.

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• Even in the meanest sorts of labor, the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.

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• Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

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• Every noble work is at first impossible.

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• Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

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• Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of two everlasting hostile empires, Necessity and Freewill.

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• Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other.

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• Fame, we may understand is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man.

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• For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light.

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• France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

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• Generations are as the days of toilsome mankind . . . What the father has made, the son can make and enjoy but has also work of his own appointed him. Thus all things wax and roll onwards; arts, establlishments, opinions; nothing is ever completed, but ever completing.

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• Give us, O give us the man who sings at his work! Be his occupation what it may, he is equal to any of those who follow the same pursuit in silent sullenness. He will do more in the same time . . . he will do it better . . . he will persevere longer. One is scarcely sensible to fatigue while he marches to music. The very stars are said to make harmony as they revolve in their spheres.

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• Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insist on its own rights.

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• Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

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• Great souls are always loyally submissive, reverent to what is over them: only small mean souls are otherwise.

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• Happy the people whose annals are blank in history books!

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• Have a purpose in life, and having it, throw into your work such strength of mind and muscle as God has given you.

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