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The greatest of all faults, I should say, is to be conscious of none.

— Thomas Carlyle

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Popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world.

— Thomas Carlyle

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Our grand business is undoubtedly not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

— Thomas Carlyle

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Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

— Thomas Carlyle

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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all that they can.

— Thomas Carlyle

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A loving heart is the beginning of all knowledge.

— Thomas Carlyle

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The greatest fault is to be conscious of none.

— Thomas Carlyle

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

— Thomas Carlyle

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Gad! she'd better!

— Thomas Carlyle

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A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

— Thomas Carlyle

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The everlasting No.

— Thomas Carlyle

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Man is a tool-using animal…Without tools he is nothing, with tools he is all.

— Thomas Carlyle

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Captains of industry.

— Thomas Carlyle

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Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man; but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.

— Thomas Carlyle

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The Dismal Science.

— Thomas Carlyle

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A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven millions mostly fools.

— Thomas Carlyle

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The true University of these days is a collection of books.

— Thomas Carlyle

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France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams.

— Thomas Carlyle

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The seagreen Incorruptible.

— Thomas Carlyle

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History a distillation of rumour.

— Thomas Carlyle

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