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The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#dishonest #free #heart #life #man

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

#blade #every #eyes #god #grass

If an eloquent speaker speak not the truth, is there a more horrid kind of object in creation? ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#eloquent #horrid #kind #more #object

Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#men #ought #than #unless

No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#elbow #giving #himself #lives #man

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#bad #heartily #laughed #man #once

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking. ↗

— William James

#altering #his #life #man #thinking

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#constantly #originality #quarrel #thing

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#arts #both #brutish #dead #divine

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#asking #brave #done #enough #ever