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Thomas Carlyle Quotes

«Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.»
«The foul sluggard's comfort: `It will last my time'.»
«Close thy Byron; open thy Goethe.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: Byron, Goethe
«Speech is too often not . . . the art of concealing Thought; but of quite stifling and suspending Thought.»
«Poetry and Religion (and it is really worth knowing) are `a product of the smaller intestines'.»
«It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.»
«A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.»
Author: Thomas Carlyle (Essayist, Historian) | Keywords: exhibits
«Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.»
«Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!»
«Variety is the condition of harmony.»