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Thomas Carlyle Quotes


No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

No person is important enough to make me angry.

No pressure, no diamonds.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

No violent extreme endures.

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

Not what I have, but what I do is my kingdom.

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.

Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.

Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment.

Nothing that was worthy in the past departs; no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.

Of all acts of man repentance is the most divine. The greatest of all faults is to be conscious of none.

Oh, give us the man who sings at his work.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Originality is a thing we constantly clamour for, and constantly quarrel with.

Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

Reform is not pleasant, but grievous; no person can reform themselves without suffering and hard work, how much less a nation.