Thomas Carlyle

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“What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.”

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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“Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see further.”

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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“Conviction is worthless unless it is converted into conduct.”

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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“Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.”

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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“The lies (Western slander) which well-meaning zeal has heaped round this man (Muhammad) are disgraceful to ourselves only.”

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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“Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.”

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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“A person usually has two reasons for doing something, a good reason and the real reason.”

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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“Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.”

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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"Endurance is patience concentrated."

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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"Why tell me that a man is a fine speaker, if it is not the truth that he is speaking?"

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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"Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone."

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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"No pressure, no diamonds."

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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"You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist - all he must learn are the two words 'supply' and 'demand'."

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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"Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you."

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

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"Trust not the heart of that man for whom old clothes are not venerable."

― Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)