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Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.
Thomas Carlyle
Originality
Quarrel
None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.
Thomas Carlyle
Whisper
Will
One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.
Thomas Carlyle
Certainty
No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.
Thomas Carlyle
Men
Man
Proof
No pressure, no diamonds.
Thomas Carlyle
Pressure
No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.
Thomas Carlyle
Man
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
Thomas Carlyle
Being
Giving
Man
World
The cut of a garment speaks of intellect and talent and the color of temperament and heart.
Thomas Carlyle
Talent
Heart
Intellect
Temperament
To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.
Thomas Carlyle
Men
Man
Nation
Reform
Will
World
Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.
Thomas Carlyle
Faith
Force
Kings
Persuasion
World
Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.
Thomas Carlyle
Honor
Man
Will
The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle
Courage
Desire
Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
Thomas Carlyle
Action
End
Talk
Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.
Thomas Carlyle
Silence
Speech
Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.
Thomas Carlyle
Fashion
Silence