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Thomas Carlyle Quotes
«The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Originality
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merit, novelties, novelty, originality, sincerity
«These Arabs, the man Mahomet, and that one century, - is it not as if a spark had fallen, one spark, on a world of what proves explosive powder, blazes heaven-high from Delhi to Granada! I said, the Great man was always as lightning out of Heaven; th»
«Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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lie in, More popular than, popular, popular opinion, popular with
«No person was every rightly understood until they had been first regarded with a certain feeling, not of tolerance, but of sympathy.»
«We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
adjust, advantages, aims, calmly, characters, clearer, deeper, disappear, discern, distinctive, endeavors, gazing, idly, inspection, obscure, of our own, perplex, perplexed, perplexes, perplexing, perplexities, perplexity, relations, reveal, scene, signs, tendencies, whereby, wisely
«Sarcasm is the language of the devil, for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Sarcasm
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as good as, long since, renounced, sarcasm
«There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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Literature
| Keywords:
discovery, literary, literature, paying, quantity
«The illimitable, silent, never-resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent, like an all-embracing ocean-tide, on which we and all the universe swim like exhalations, like apparitions which are, and then are not: this is forever very»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
| Keywords:
all-embracing, apparitions, embracing, exhalation, exhalations, illimitable, resting, rolling, roll call, rushing, swift, swim, tide