Thomas Carlyle

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Man is a tool-using animal. Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with all his cunning he cannot quite bury under the Finite. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#heart #joy #joyous #kindness #laugh