History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
-Thomas Carlyle
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Thomas Carlyle Quotes – The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently..
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
-Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle Quotes – The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground..
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
-Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle Quotes – It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics..
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
-Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle Quotes – Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness..
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness.
-Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle Quotes – There is a great discovery still to be made in literature..
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
Thomas Carlyle Quotes – No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men..
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
-Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle Quotes – If you do not wish a man to do a thing..
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.
-Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle Quotes – Man is..
Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.
-Thomas Carlyle
Thomas Carlyle Quotes – It were a real increase of human happiness..
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.
-Thomas Carlyle