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| Thomas Carlyle Quotes | No. | Quotation | Subject |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Faith is loyalty to some inspired Teacher, some spiritual Hero. And what therefore is loyalty proper, the life-breath of all society, but an efficence of Hero-worship, submissive admiration for the truly great? Society is founded on Hero-worship. | Excellence |
| 2 | Show our critics a great man, a Luther for example, and they begin what they call 'account' for him; not to worhsip him, but take the dimensions of him and bring him out to be a little kind of man! | Excellence |
| 3 | Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat...Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy! | Failure |
| 4 | Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope. | Faith |
| 5 | Fame, we may understand is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such: it is an accident, not a property of a man. | Fame |
| 6 | The greatest of faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none. | Foolish |
| 7 | No good book, or good thing of any sort, shows its best face at first. | Kindness |
| 8 | For love is ever the beginning of Knowledge, as fire is of light. | Knowledge |
| 9 | How much lies in laughter: the cipher key, wherewith we decipher the whole man! | Laughter |
| 10 | Humor - Its essence is love; it issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper. | Laughter |
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