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Schriftsteller, Historiker (Schottland, 1795 - 1881).

Thomas Carlyle · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum

Thomas Carlyle wäre heute 229 Jahre, 3 Monate, 30 Tage oder 83.761 Tage alt.

Geboren am 04.12.1795 in Ecclefechan
Gestorben am 05.02.1881 in London
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• The 'golden-calf of self-love.'

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• The age of miracles is forever here!

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• The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.

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• The Bible-Society . . . is found, on inquiry, to be . . . a machine for converting the Heathen.

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• The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.

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• The coldest word was once a glowing metaphor.

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• The courage we desire and prize is not the courage to die decently, but to live manfully.

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• The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.

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• The difference between Orthodoxy or My-doxy and Heterodoxy or Thy-doxy.

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• The Dismal Science.

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• The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

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• The end of man is an action and not a thought, though it were the noblest.

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• The everlasting No.

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• The eye sees what it brings the power to see.

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• The fearful Unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

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• The foul sluggard's comfort: 'It will last my time.'

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• The glory of a workman, still more of a master workman, that he does his work well, ought to be his most precious possession; like the honor of a soldier, dearer to him than life.

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• The good deeds of an unknown man are like a hidden vein of water which, unnoticed, makes the country green.

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• The great law of culture: Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

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• The greatest mistake is to imagine that we never err.

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