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Schriftsteller, Historiker (Schottland, 1795 - 1881).

Thomas Carlyle · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Thomas Carlyle wäre heute 228 Jahre, 9 Monate, 29 Tage oder 83.579 Tage alt.

Geboren am 04.12.1795 in Ecclefechan
Gestorben am 05.02.1881 in London
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• He that has done nothing has known nothing.

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• He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: There is no law juster than that.

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• He who first shortened the labour of copyists by device of Movable Types was disbanding hired armies, and cashiering most Kings and Senates, and creating a whole new democratic world: he had invented the art of printing.

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• Heroism - the divine relation which, in all times, unites a great man to other men.

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• History a distillation of rumour.

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• History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

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• How much lies in laughter: the cipher key, wherewith we decipher the whole man.

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• Humor - Its essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

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• Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

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• I don't pretend to understand the universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am . . . People ought to be modester.

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• I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

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• I hope we English will long maintain our grand talent pour le silence.

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• I should say sincerity, a deep, great, genuine sincerity is the first characteristic of all men in any way heroic.

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• If Jesus Christ were to come to-day, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

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• Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat . . . Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy.

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• In books lies the soul of the whole Past Time; the articulate audible voice of the Past, when the body and material substance of it has altogether vanished like a dream.

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• In epochs when cash payment has become the sole nexus of man to man.

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• In every object there is inexhaustible meaning; the eye sees in it what the eye brings means of seeing.

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• It can be said of him, when he departed, he took a man's life along with him.

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• It is the Age of Machinery, in every outward and inward sense of that word.

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