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Thomas Carlyle: top 100 quotes
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Death (n.) is going over to the majority.
The Book (n.) is the true university.
The Book (n.) is a thing which, if it will not improve by repeated readings, does not deserve to be read at all.
The Book (n.) is the purest essence of a human soul.
The Book (n.) is tasked to excite the reader to self-activity.
Genius (n.) is ever a secret to itself.
Genius (n.) is an immense capacity for taking trouble.
Genius (n.) is the transcendent capacity of taking trouble first of all.
Silence (n.) is the eternal duty of man.
Silence (n.) is as deep as eternity, just as speech is as shallow as time.
Silence (n.) is deep as eternity... speech is shallow as time. As such, under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better.
Silence (n.) is divine, yet also brutish and dead, so one must also learn the human art of speech.
Silence (n.) is the element in which great things fashion themselves together... that at length they may emerge, full-formed and majestic, into the delight of life, which they are thenceforth to rule.
Silence (n.) is more eloquent than words.
Silence (n.) is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Silence (n.) is of eternity, speech is of time.
Worship (n.) is transcendent wonder.
The Accidental (n.) is, in painting, in fact a 'controlled looseness' in which is always maintained as a top priority.
Love (n.) is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.
Man (n.) is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope ; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.