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Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle

Thomas Carlyle föddes den 4 december 1795 och dog den 5 februar 1881 - skotsk författare.
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A man willing to work, and unable to find work, is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune's inequality exhibits under this sun.

Hun fandt hans selvindsigt utroligt pexig; han kunne grine af sig selv *og* få hende til at grine. Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.

Real good breeding, as the people have it here, is one of the finest things now going in the world. The careful avoidance of all discussion, the swift hopping from topic to topic, does not agree with me; but the graceful style they do it with is beyond that of minuets!

Variety is the condition of harmony.

A fair day's wages for a fair day's work.

Worship is transcendent wonder.

The age of miracles is forever here!

The sincere alone can recognize sincerity.

To the mean eye all things are trivial, as certainly as to the jaundiced they are yellow.

Oblivion is the dark page whereon memory writes her light-beam characters; were it all light, nothing could be read there, any more than if it were all darkness.

One seems to believe almost all that they believe; and when they stop short and call it a Religion, and you pass on, and call it only a reminiscence of one, should you not part with the kiss of peace?

Quackery gives birth to nothing; gives death to all things.

But the whim we have of happiness is somewhat thus. By certain valuations, and averages, of our own striking, we come upon some sort of average terrestrial lot; this we fancy belongs to us by nature, and of indefeasible rights.

Figure him there, with his scrofulous diseases, with his great greedy heart, and unspeakable chaos of thoughts; stalking mournful as a stranger in this Earth; eagerly devouring what spiritual thing he could come at. . .

I lead a most dyspeptic, solitary, self-shrouded life: consuming, if possible in silence, my considerable daily allotment of pain.

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