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In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

By Thomas Carlyle
If you do not wish a man to do a thing, you had better get him to talk about it; for the more men talk, the more likely they are to do nothing else.

By Thomas Carlyle
If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, give her the benefit of the doubt.

By Thomas Carlyle
If you are ever in doubt as to whether to kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

By Thomas Carlyle
If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

By Thomas Carlyle
If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

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If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

By Thomas Carlyle
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.

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

By Thomas Carlyle
I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

By Thomas Carlyle
I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.

By Thomas Carlyle
I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

By Thomas Carlyle
I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

By Thomas Carlyle
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

By Thomas Carlyle
History is the essence of innumerable biographies

By Thomas Carlyle
History is the essence of innumerable biographies.

By Thomas Carlyle
History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

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History, a distillation of rumour.

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He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

By Thomas Carlyle
He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

By Thomas Carlyle
Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books

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Happy the people whose annals are blank in the history books

By Thomas Carlyle
Happy the people whose annals are vacant.

By Thomas Carlyle
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.

By Thomas Carlyle
Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.

By Thomas Carlyle
France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.

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For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

By Thomas Carlyle
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

By Thomas Carlyle
Foolish men imagine that because judgement for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgement for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as

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Everywhere in life, the true question is not what we gain, but what we do.

By Thomas Carlyle