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Thomas Carlyle

  • A judicious man uses statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted upon him... Thomas Carlyle {view}
  • Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.... Thomas Carlyle {view}
  • What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science... Thomas Carlyle {view}
  • In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government... Thomas Carlyle {view}
  • There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write... Thomas Carlyle {view}
  • The mystical bond of brotherhood makes all men brothers... Thomas Carlyle {view}
  • Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther... Thomas Carlyle {view}
  • See deep enough, and you see musically; the heart of nature being everywhere music.... Thomas Carlyle {view}
  • The soul gives unity to what it looks at with love.... Thomas Carlyle {view}
  • Habit is the deepest law of human nature... Thomas Carlyle {view}
  • What we become depends on what we read after all the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is the collection of books.... Thomas Carlyle {view}
  • All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.... Thomas Carlyle {view}