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127 quotes (Page 5 of 6 pages)The history of the world is but the biography of great men.
History and Historians
Thomas Carlyle
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The king is the man who can.
Ability
Thomas Carlyle
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The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.
Sincerity
Thomas Carlyle
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The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.
Belief
Thomas Carlyle
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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.
Churches
Thomas Carlyle
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The outer passes away; the innermost is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
Age and Aging
Thomas Carlyle
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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.
Past
Thomas Carlyle
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The purpose of man is in action not thought.
Purpose
Thomas Carlyle
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The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.
Invention and Inventor
Thomas Carlyle
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The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.
Soul
Thomas Carlyle
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The spiritual is the parent of the practical.
Spirit and Spirituality
Thomas Carlyle
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
Civilization
Thomas Carlyle
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The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.
Life and Living
Thomas Carlyle
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The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Libraries
Thomas Carlyle
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The whole past is the procession of the present.
History and Historians
Thomas Carlyle
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The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.
Mediocrity
Thomas Carlyle
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There is often more spiritual force in a proverb than in whole philosophical systems.
Proverbs
Thomas Carlyle
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Thought is the parent of the deed.
Thoughts and Thinking
Thomas Carlyle
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Twenty-seven millions, mostly fools.
Uncategorised
Thomas Carlyle
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Variety is the condition of harmony.
Variety
Thomas Carlyle
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Virtue is like health: the harmony of the whole man.
Virtue
Thomas Carlyle
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Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.
Eyes
Thomas Carlyle
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
Ability
Thomas Carlyle
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Wonder is the basis of worship.
Wonder
Thomas Carlyle
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Work alone is noble.
Work
Thomas Carlyle
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun