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The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

This world, after all our science and sciences, is still a miracle wonderful, inscrutable, magical and more, to whosoever will think of it.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

Thomas Carlyle

Fortune

The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

Thomas Carlyle

World

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

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

Thomas Carlyle

Books

University

The spiritual is the parent of the practical.

Thomas Carlyle

Spiritual

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

Thomas Carlyle

Difference

Unconscious

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

Thomas Carlyle

Happiness

Work

The real use of gunpowder is to make all men tall.

Thomas Carlyle

Men

The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity.

The man of life upright has a guiltless heart, free from all dishonest deeds or thought of vanity.

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

Thomas Carlyle

Faults

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.