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Famous Quotes By Thomas Carlyle

Famous quotes by the Scottish essayist and historian, Thomas Carlyle. He was born on December 4, 1795 at Ecclefechan, in the Scottish borders and died on February 5, 1881.

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I do not hate him nearly as much as I fear I ought to.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy.

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

If you are ever in doubt as to whether or not you should kiss a pretty girl, always give her the benefit of the doubt.

The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure there is one rascal less in the world.

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

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The more conscious a philosopher is of the weak spots of his theory, the more certain he is to speak with an air of final authority.

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