Thomas Carlyle

The spiritual is the parent of the practical. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The true university of these days is a collection of books. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Happy the people whose annals are vacant. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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