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Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May; but at length the season of summer does come.
Thomas Carlyle
April
May
Spring
Summer
Winter
Let each become all that he was created capable of being.
Thomas Carlyle
Being
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle
Being
Laughter
Reason
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
Age
Men
Happiness
It is the heart always that sees, before the head can see.
Thomas Carlyle
Heart
It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.
Thomas Carlyle
Politics
People
Hope
It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop window like a loaded pistol for sale.
Thomas Carlyle
Intellect
Trade
Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
Thomas Carlyle
Man
May
World
A man without a goal is like a ship without a rudder.
Thomas Carlyle
Goal
Man
Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.
Thomas Carlyle
Work
Be not a slave of words.
Thomas Carlyle
Words
All that mankind has done, thought or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle
Thought
Books
Lying
Magic
Mankind
All great peoples are conservative.
Thomas Carlyle
Conservative
Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
Thomas Carlyle
Adversity
Heaven
Jewels
A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.
Thomas Carlyle
Life